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Good god, this text is real
Looked up decapitators... https://stoeltingco.com/Neuroscience/Decapitators~9997
"Rodent guillotine" https://www.wpiinc.com/var-2645-rodent-guillotine.html
Lol I love how it says "considered one of the more humane ways to sacrifice laboratory rodents. Who are they sacrificing them to? The great God of science?
That's what it's called when it's inhumane to let them live after an experiment.
Certain rats have incredibly elevated chances of growing tumors, for example. Letting them grow old is basically torture, so...
Still wouldn't call that a sacrifice... That's a mercy killing.
It's archaic euphemistic jargon, and that's why you generally don't see it used outside of the niche.
Yeah, because it's fast and little pain can be felt before its dead. Guillotines were developed to be a more humane execution for people.
"Physical methods" (Guillotine, cardiac puncture, thoracotomy, etc) are usually a secondary confirmation of death after lethal ketamine/xylazine cocktail injection, isofluorane, or CO2 inhalation.
And yeah we're sacrificing them to the science god to try and make new discoveries and new therapies. We're also trying to develop ways to avoid using organisms such as organ on a chip or multiple organ on a chip systems but thats expensive af and not yet sufficient quality to replace organism testing.
I put my organ on a chip all the time, but I think you might not be talking about pringles here
Think like a microchip but for cells. These organ on a chip contain various cells to emulate the function and response of an organ.
I recommend finding a different hobby as salt up your urethra sounds unpleasant. But I mean if your partner is into it whatever.
I instinctively read "considered one of the more humane ways to sacrifice laboratory students"
Yes, for mild winters and plentiful harvests
Bastards, we need harsher winters over here. Otherwise the moskitos and invasive species get even more numerous.
For Reviewer B to accidentally to misclick and lose all their notes.