That's possible, but not likely, says David Harrison, a professor at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, who helped lead the study.

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The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, which distributes more than 6, 000 kinds of modified mice to labs around the world, is working on at least 200 types for the New York researchers, said the lab's Stephen Linnell.

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"I think we're too often fixated on numbers, and not enough on what outcomes they relate to, " says Clifford Rosen, a top expert on bone disease at the Jackson Laboratory in Barr Harbor, Maine, who headed an FDA advisory panel on Avandia.

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