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The animals were also known as “chimeric mice,” a term Dr. Mintz preferred to avoid because of its association with the monsters of Greek mythology. Her mice, who became the subjects of poetry she wrote in her free time, were not in the least monstrous, she found, and provided fundamental insight into the understanding of genetics and, in time, cancer.