Check out my minireview published as part of JVI’s New Voices in Virology collection on why translation shouldn’t stop at “bench to bedside.” Some of the most important insights on zoonotic spillover come from closing the loop between the laboratory and the field.
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Rodents have been a cornerstone of medical research since the 17th century, with their
use formalized alongside the development of fancy mice into familiar inbred mouse
strains in the early 1900s (1)....