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TWiEVO 90: The mystery of the mouse mummies

This Week in Evolution

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Mouse Rewilding in the Woods

In the woods around Princeton University, scientists are trying to put musculous mice back into the wild. The idea is to see what that means in terms of their susceptibility to virus infections. It takes a lot of funding and people willing to stay there on the slopes for this kind of research. And so IACUC immediately approaches them and says, hold on, we're really nervous that you're just putting these mice out in the wild.

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