‘The National Human Genome Research Institute attributes this similarity [to mice] to a shared ancestor about 80 million years ago.’

DARPA also is involved in a project called Mesoscale Integrated Conformal Electronics (MICE)

“The Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas consists of anterograde tracing experiments targeting diverse structures and classes of projecting neurons. Beyond regional anterograde tracing done in C57BL/6 wild-type mice, a large fraction of experiments are performed using transgenic Cre-lines. This allows access to cell-class-specific whole-brain connectivity information, with class defined by the transgenic lines.” https:// direct .mit. edu/netn/article/7/4/1497/117562/Modeling-the-cell-type-specific-mesoscale-murine

“The capabilities developed in flow cytometry developed at Livermore combine by worldwide developments in recombinant DNA technology, led in the 1980s to a Livermore-Los Alamos project to build human chromosome-specific DNA [pause and] libraries and then to the Human Genome Project.” https:// www .llnl. gov/purpose/history/1970s#event-biomedical-cell-sorter

https:// www .llnl. gov/purpose/history/1990s#event-comparative-genomics

“The mice brought to Livermore comprised some 130 unstudied mouse family lines, descendants of mice that were exposed years ago to radiation or chemicals for the purpose of studying the genetic effects of these agents. The offspring of the original mice were normal, although they were carriers of a mutation. But some of the descendants of those offspring, inheriting two copies of a mutated gene, showed anomalies (phenotypes) that are visible signs of the genetic mutations.”

https:// www .llnl. gov/sites/www/files/2020-05/compgen-str-dec-99.pdf