Monument to the laboratory mouse
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| 54°50′55″N 83°06′24″E / 54.848675°N 83.10655°E | |
| Location | Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia |
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| Designer | Andrew Kharkevich |
The monument to the laboratory mouse is a sculpture in the city of Novosibirsk in Siberia, Russia. It is located in a park in front of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and was completed on July 1, 2013, coinciding with the 120th anniversary of the founding of the city.
According to Nikolai Kolchanov, the director of the institute, the monument commemorates the sacrifice of the mice in genetic research used to understand biological and physiological mechanisms for developing new drugs and curing of diseases.[1]
Description
The monument consists of an anthropomorphic mouse with glasses and a lab coat knitting a DNA double helix. The statue is about 70 cm on a pedestal 2.5 m high.
References
External links
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