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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
And do you support research in your own laboratories? Or [[Cross Talk]] provide grants?

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{SPEAKER name="Melville H. Manson"}
From the initial grant-in-aid which was made in 1950, there are now approximately one hundred active grants-in-aid in this country and in 6 countries abroad.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
What progress is being made in discovering new facts about the way it's caused and the treatment?

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{SPEAKER name="Melville H. Manson"}
At the present time, there is no known treatment, but there are some things which we think are rather exciting in the research program. One specific is the fact that about two years ago, there was a strain of mice discovered which have muscular dystrophy which is similar to, if not the same as, muscular dystrophy in human beings.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Where was that strain discovered?

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{SPEAKER name="Melville H. Manson"}
At the Jackson Laboratories in Bar Harbor, Maine.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
That's very interesting that there are literally thousands upon thousands of mice up there. I was up there once, Dr. Manson, and you could hear the movement of these mice like a ripple of breeze through a [[laughter]] forest. And that happens when they wake up and when they go to sleep. There's a change in this kind of noise. Out of that laboratory come a good many interesting experimental animals. If I remember correctly, there's one that's a mouse that's very obese, for instance. And now that does give you an experimental animal, doesn't it?

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{SPEAKER name="Melville H. Manson"}
Yes. For the first time, really last fall, these mice were made available as a result of a grant from MDAA and are now being utilized in a fairly large number of laboratories throughout this country.