TARTUWould you exchange your new Mercedes Benz for one white laboratory mouse?You might have to if you want a genetically modified mouse from Visgenyx, a Tartu University spin-off company that sells the super rodents for 32,000 euros a pop to corporations looking for a rodent containing heat- or virus-resistant qualities.Visgenyx is one of several companies that has sprouted out of the university in Estonia's second largest city, for centuries a center of scientific research in the Baltic region.In terms of biotechnological research, Tartu University has been active since the 1970s.Rector H...
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