download
Document Actions
Mouse model: what do Japanese life sciences researchers mean by this term?
26/01/2009
Abstract
Mouse-related research in the life sciences has expanded remarkably over the last two decades, resulting in growing use of the term “mouse model”. Our interviews with 64 leading Japanese life sciences researchers showed heterogeneities in the definition of “mouse model” in the Japanese life sciences community. Here, we discuss the implications for the relationship between the life sciences community and society in Japan that may result from this ambiguity in the terminology. It is suggested that, in Japanese life sciences, efforts by individual researchers to make their scientific information unambiguous and explanative are necessary.
authors
Jin Higashijima,
Kae Takahashi,
Kazuto Kato
keywords
Science and media, Public communication of and discourses on science and technology
