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One research area they are often used for is to study the symbiosis between them and the bacteria they grow in their light organs for bioluminescence, see Squid/Vibrio Collection for example.
They're also probably the most studied cephalopod for understanding how they develop from an egg, see Euprymna scolopes, Hawaiian bobtail squid - The Cephalopod Page for a bit on that, too, because they're (relatively) easy (in a professional lab) to raise and breed (which is good news) and have a short lifetime (bad news). As far as I know they're not used for anything like testing products, but they are (sadly) good experimental animals for studying development.
That does mean that what labs have done to raise them from eggs has been well-documented:
http://www.cephbase.utmb.edu/refdb/pdf/7724.pdf
That probably has a lot of the answers that you want in it, but you'll likely have to learn a lot of new terminology to read it... if you take a look at that article and ask questions here to help understand it, you can probably get some pretty good explanations.
They're also probably the most studied cephalopod for understanding how they develop from an egg, see Euprymna scolopes, Hawaiian bobtail squid - The Cephalopod Page for a bit on that, too, because they're (relatively) easy (in a professional lab) to raise and breed (which is good news) and have a short lifetime (bad news). As far as I know they're not used for anything like testing products, but they are (sadly) good experimental animals for studying development.
That does mean that what labs have done to raise them from eggs has been well-documented:
http://www.cephbase.utmb.edu/refdb/pdf/7724.pdf
That probably has a lot of the answers that you want in it, but you'll likely have to learn a lot of new terminology to read it... if you take a look at that article and ask questions here to help understand it, you can probably get some pretty good explanations.