Make me a mouse who...

The current batch of mice is extraordinarily active. Today when the doctor was injecting parasite into them, they were trying their best to loosen the grip and bite the doctor. I asked doc (our favourite vet in the animal house) to be careful so that he doesnt get bitten and turn into a mouse-man (like spiderman) or into a mouse (even worse). He said that no matter what precautions we take now, in our next life all of us will become mice and the mice which we have killed will become researchers.

Actually i dont mind that.

If there is something like a 'rebirth' i dont consider myself lucky enough to be reunited with the lovers of my past life/lives. I m ok with the idea of being born as a mouse. But i have only one request. I want to become a mouse who contributes in some way to somebody's experiment. And not one of those who are killed just because there is a suspected infection in the animal house, not achieving anything in their life. That's a waste of life.

Picture: This is the new strain of mice i m working on currently. Decided to change the mouse strain in the final year (i hope...) of my PhD. The experiments i have been doing for the past 3 years need to be repeated in this new mouse model in less than a year. Am i being too ambitious?

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Princess Fiona said…

Good luck!!

14 September, 2007 13:44

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