1.   Algernon, incidentally, is the lab mouse who undergoes the same surgery as Charlie.

2.   By inserting one of their genes into ordinary lab mice, Emory researchers have created a more sociable breed of mouse.

3.   Harold Varmus, president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, is also not impressed by the utopian possibility of dispensing with lab mice.

4.   He only briefly noted some liver tumors in female lab mice.

5.   In a backlash to the trend in thinness, Big Beautiful Rodent magazine is founded by lab mice who received placebos during test research.

6.   Lab equipment, images of lab mice and lab refrigerators, precision machinery, vials and tubes, whiteness and brushed metal lowered the temperature while spooking the mind.

7.   Lab mice got cancer when given high doses of Alar.

8.   That is acceptable for a doomed lab mouse.

9.   Yet, lab mice at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Mass. are losing weight thanks to a recently identified protein that helps their bodies burn up junk food.

10.   Tests of the vaccine on lab mice have proven effective in killing the bacteria.