Greenoak, who is remarkably tanned himself, argues that although the tan offers some protection against skin damage there is really no such thing as a safe tan. In so far as you need UV light, a known carcinogen, to induce a tan, the presence of a tan merely shows how much UV you have had. The researchers at Sydney University have bred a mouse that develops a tan when exposed to UV light. Greenoak believes this may be the first and only tanning mouse in the world. Reeve points out that they weren't aiming for a tanning mouse.
Lets breed that one up.
Later we discovered that they produced these wonderful tans whereas the others didn't tan at all. According to Greenoak, the great advantage of Australian science is that it is small. Researchers work in small groups that have to do everything from breeding the mice and feeding them to experimenting on them and killing them. Researchers in large teams in other countries do not have close contact with their animals and the people who look after the animals. They just monitor the results they want, within fairly strict parameters, and many observations are lost.