Paralith

Yes, that's what we use, CO2 chambers. I haven't heard of the tail trick, but I've also heard of a method that basically involves popping their skull off of their neck. From what I know it's a method from back in the day, and again difficult to pull off. I'm pretty sure methods of this nature are now illegal.

My lab looks a lot like ecoli's up there, with the addition of the mouse area. Our mice are in the barrier room, so we gotta get all dolled up in these space suit things here to keep the mice nice and clean and healthy: And here are (or were, rather, before we dissected them) some of my mice, running on a testing device called a Rotarod. Basically, the mouse that falls off last has the strongest muscles.

Hello. I've actually been posting for a while now, but I sorta missed the fact that there's an "introduce yourself" thread. Oops! ^^; I am addicted to cheese puffs and I enjoy small cats that dress up like food. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyan_Nyan_Nyanko - based on my informal research, if you are female you will find this very cute, if you are male you will find it utterly ridiculous. Let's see if my results are supported!) To illustrate my dorkiness, I chose my avatar because it is of a species of butterfly whose genus name begins with the same letter as my first name, and whose species name begins with the same letter as my last name. And yes, I did have too much time on my hands.

What does the elephant say to the naked man? "Gosh, it's cute, but can you really breathe out of that thing?" =p