CARBONDALE -- A laboratory mouse at Southern Illinois University that died this week of old age was a mouse for the ages, school officials said. The dwarf mouse, otherwise known as GHR-KO 11C, died Wednesday at 4 years, 11 months and three weeks, officials said. That's 180 to 200 years old in people years, said Andrzej Bartke, a physiologist who worked with the mouse. (AP)<p>***He might have said that, but he was wrong. A "mouse year" and a "people year" each is 365 days long. Perhaps what Bartke meant was that it was a very old mouse.***<p>[ January 18, 2003: Message edited by: blanp ]</p>
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