Liane and Bill Russell in the "Mouse House." This is the uncropped version of the photo appearing in the first tweet. Both Lee and Bill are wearing white lab clothes and looking at a mouse. Lee is holding the mouse and Bill is petting its head. Long rows of mice habitats stretch out behind them.

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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2023 18:45:24 UTC Robert McNees

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   So Lee and Bill set up the "Mouse House" –– an enormous colony of mice that would serve as proxies for humans in studies of radiation exposure.

   Together they studied the effect of radiation on the development of mice embryos, and concluded that human embryos were likely to be especially vulnerable to teratogenesis during the first seven weeks of gestation.

   Image: Oak Ridge National Laboratory