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...bred to spend their brief lives (about two years) as test subjects--a job they do pretty well. "As mammals with physical systems somewhat like our own, they give us a relatively quick, inexpensive way of getting at the causes of disease and possible therapies," says Dr. Kenneth Paigen, director of the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, the world's most famous mouse-breeding facility. Each year the lab ships out some 2 million mice from more than 1,700 stocks, including so-called designer mice with genes added or deleted so that they more closely "model" human disease...
...authors of the challenged studies were understandably irritated. Cancer Researcher Beverly Paigen said that while her voluntary effort was only a preliminary study, "it would have been unethical to put it into a drawer and forget it." Jeered Love Canal Homeowner Marie Pozniak: "This is apparently the only place in the U.S. where you can eat, breathe and drink 240 poisonous compounds and be safe...
True enough, but the circumstantial case seems to be getting stronger. Last December Mrs. Gibbs, in her own informal survey, found that only two of the eight women in the Love Canal area who gave birth in 1978 and 1979 had delivered normal babies. In March, Cancer Researcher Beverly Paigen of the Roswell Park Memorial Institute in nearby Buffalo told congressional investigators that the miscarriage rate among women in the contaminated sector was a startling 25.2% compared with 8.5% before they moved into the neighborhood. But what triggered the latest crisis was a study showing an unusually high incidence...
Whatever the case, shortly after the Biogenics findings became public, the results of another incriminating study were disclosed. Two Buffalo researchers, Drs. Beverly Paigen and Stephen Barren, found hints of peripheral nerve damage (as indicated by the slowing of electrical impulses through the nerves) and related ailments, in a group of 35 Love Canal residents...
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