Stephen Dubner

I thought you were going to say that mice, their hands are too small to hold a joint and that rats somehow... If you could teach them to roll joints, I imagine that the mice would just roll a smaller one. Before she was a science writer, Brookshire was a practicing scientist at the Wake Forest School of Medicine, where she got a Ph.D. in physiology and pharmacology.

I thought you were going to say that mice, their hands are too small to hold a joint and that rats somehow... If you could teach them to roll joints, I imagine that the mice would just roll a smaller one. Before she was a science writer, Brookshire was a practicing scientist at the Wake Forest School of Medicine, where she got a Ph.D. in physiology and pharmacology.

I thought you were going to say that mice, their hands are too small to hold a joint and that rats somehow... If you could teach them to roll joints, I imagine that the mice would just roll a smaller one. Before she was a science writer, Brookshire was a practicing scientist at the Wake Forest School of Medicine, where she got a Ph.D. in physiology and pharmacology.

What were some drugs that you were giving to mice and rats?

What were some drugs that you were giving to mice and rats?

What were some drugs that you were giving to mice and rats?

That was going to be my guess, but you know.

That was going to be my guess, but you know.

That was going to be my guess, but you know.

And what were you looking for?

And what were you looking for?

And what were you looking for?

And what'd you learn?

And what'd you learn?

And what'd you learn?

I've read that the mouse or rat model in research can be really fruitful for certain kinds of research, but unfruitful for others. What can you tell me about that?

I've read that the mouse or rat model in research can be really fruitful for certain kinds of research, but unfruitful for others. What can you tell me about that?

I've read that the mouse or rat model in research can be really fruitful for certain kinds of research, but unfruitful for others. What can you tell me about that?

What are the other things that make mice and rats still really popular subjects of this kind of research? Is it that they're available, cheap, docile, that they breed quickly, that they respond quickly?

What are the other things that make mice and rats still really popular subjects of this kind of research? Is it that they're available, cheap, docile, that they breed quickly, that they respond quickly?