The Monument The Laboratory Mouse In Russia.

The Monument the laboratory mouse is a carve in the city of Novosibirsk in Siberia, Russia. It is detected in a park in front of the institute of cytology and Genetic of the Russian Academy of Sciences and was finished on July 1, 2013, coinciding with the 120th anniversary of the founding of the city.

Depending on Nikolai Kolchanov, the director of the institute, the monument memorializes the sacrifice of the mice in genetic research worked to understand biological and physiological mechanisms for occurring new drugs and curving disease.

The monument, which remains on a granite pedestal, is of a laboratory mouse wearing pince-nez on the tip of its nose. The mouse is knitting pins in its paws and is shown knitting a double helix of DNA. The bronze figure is itself only 70cm high, but the total height of the monument including the pedestal is 2.5 meters.

The DNA spiral emerging from the knitting pins winds to the left, thus showing that it is the still poorly understood Z-DNA. This characteristic of scientific research that is yet to be done.

In contrast, the basic form, B-DNA, the information as it depicted in school education, turns to the right. Schoolchildren visiting the monument are constantly asked what is unique about the DNA spiral that the mouse is knitting.