Question

One of the advantages of developing transgenic mice is that it is very useful

• A. To study vaccine safety
• B. In producing new varieties of mice
• C. In developing a show piece example
• D. In gene targeting

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

To study vaccine safety

Transgenic mice have become an integral part of the research process when it comes to evaluating disease characteristics and potential and/or existing treatments. In general, drug treatments cannot be approved for use in humans if they are not first tested using animal subjects. Under these circumstances, transgenic mice are indispensable. They allow researchers to test potential drug treatments more readily and get results much faster than is the case with human trials.

So the correct answer is A.