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Seeds of Model Cereal Plant Now Available
April 5, 2013 Seeds of the model cereal plant Brachypodium distachyon are now available to the international scientific ... > full story -
Wild Mice Have Natural Protection Against Lyme Borreliosis
April 4, 2013 Like humans, mice can become infected with Borrelia. However, not all mice that come into contact with these bacteria contract the dreaded Lyme disease: Animals with a particular gene variant are ... > full story -
Breakthrough Cancer-Killing Treatment Has No Side-Effects in Mice: New Chemistry May Cure Human Cancers
April 3, 2013 The scientific crusade against cancer recently achieved a victory. Medical researchers have developed a new form of radiation therapy that successfully put cancer into remission in mice. This ... > full story -
Fast Track to Mouse Modeling
April 2, 2013 What genes are responsible for the development of breast cancer? What are the brain cell mutations that lead to the onset of Alzheimer's? To find new therapies, scientists have to understand how ... > full story -
Surprising Findings in Mitochondrial Biology Change Long-Standing Ideas on the Protein MTERF1
April 2, 2013 New findings in mitochondrial biology thoroughly change the idea scientists had for 20 years on the role and importance of the protein MTERF1. For the first time, scientists now have investigated in ... > full story -
Nothing Fishy About It: Fish Oil Can Boost the Immune System
April 1, 2013 Fish oil rich in DHA and EPA is widely believed to help prevent disease by reducing inflammation, but until now, scientists were not entirely sure about its immune enhancing effects. A new report ... > full story -
Mate Choice in Mice Is Heavily Influenced by Paternal Cues, Mouse Study Shows
March 28, 2013 Hybrid offspring of different house mice populations show a preference for mating with individuals from their father's original ... > full story -
New Way to Lose Weight? Changing Microbes in Guts of Mice Resulted in Rapid Weight Loss
March 27, 2013 New research has found that the gut microbes of mice underwent drastic changes following gastric bypass surgery. The transfer of these microbes into sterile mice resulted in rapid weight ... > full story -
Fewer Children Mean Longer Life?
March 27, 2013 New research into aging processes, based on modern genetic techniques, confirms theoretical expectations about the correlation between reproduction and lifespan. Studies of birds reveal that those ... > full story -
Mice Show Innate Ability to Vocalize: Deaf or Not, Courting Male Mice Make Same Sounds
March 26, 2013 While humans and birds must learn to vocalize, a neurophysiologist has found that deaf male mice will vocalize to females the same way as hearing mice. The finding points the way to a more finely ... > full story
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