In which country is this mouse statue to be found?
The picture shows the Monument to the Laboratory Mouse. The sculpture is in a park in front of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk' Akademgorodok, Siberia, Russia. It was completed on July 1, 2013, coinciding with the 120th anniversary of the founding of the city. The monument commemorates the sacrifice of the mice in genetic research used to understand biological and physiological mechanisms for developing new drugs and curing of diseases.
The monument, situated on a granite pedestal, depicts of a laboratory mouse wearing pince-nez on the tip of its nose. The mouse holds knitting needles in its paws and is shown knitting a double helix of DNA. The bronze figure is itself only 70 cm (27½”) high, but the total height of the monument including the pedestal is 2.5 meters (98"). The DNA spiral emerging from the knitting needles winds to the left, thus showing that it is the still poorly understood Z-DNA - this symbolic of scientific research that is still to be done. In contrast, the more common B-DNA (depicted in school lessons) winds to the right.
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