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Best known for its genetics research , with 37 principal investigators studying every major human disease and developing new biomedical technologies and information systems , The Jackson Laboratory maintains more than 2,800 strains ( varieties ) of mice , each serving as a model for one or more human diseases and disorders . I was excited to be there and our charge was , and is , to see , explicate , and finally advise him how to respond to the flood of ethical complexities unearthed by the torrent of new biomedical technology . Just as society has moved in the past to restrict access to dangerous nuclear and biological agents , as well as to restrict public access to information about these things , so too will society be confronted with moral challenges by the new biomedical technologies . The independent , nonprofit Jackson Laboratory is best known as the world 's largest mammalian genetics research institution , with 37 research groups studying every major human disease and developing new biomedical technologies and information systems .