NIDA Researchers Develop New Genetic Strain Of Mice To Study Nicotine Addiction

A team of investigators supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health, has created a strain of mice scientists can use to study nicotine addiction and its associated behaviors. This research, led by Dr. Henry Lester of the California Institute of Technology, and his colleagues at the Institute of Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado, is published in the November 5, 2004 issue of the journal Science.