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Article: STEROIDS BREED RESEARCH.(Living Today)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- April 11, 1989
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Byline: Paul Grondahl Staff writer
Bruce Svare is a large, peaceful man who has made a career of studying rage in small, white mice.
Stepping into Svare's laboratory at State University of Albany, a visitor is greeted by a wave of acrid, musky odor from about 400 white mice, row after row, living one to each screened cage, on a bed of sawdust in white plastic cartons the size of shoeboxes.
These aren't garden variety mice. They are Rockland Swiss albino mice that Svare, 39, a biopsychologist, has been breeding for his research for the past 20 years. They are particularly aggressive mice, which makes them good for Svare's study.
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