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Mice Run Faster On High-grade Oil
Between the 1932 and 2008
Olympic Games, world record
times of the men's 100m
sprint improved by 0.6
seconds. Scientists have
shown that an equivalent
improvement can be achieved
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Mouse With 'Humanized Version' Of Human Language Gene Provides Clues To Language Development
Scientists have made a major
contribution to
understanding human language
development. Using a
comprehensive screening
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Why Can We Talk? 'Humanized' Mice Speak Volumes About Evolutionary Past
Mice carrying a "humanized
version" of a gene believed
to influence speech and
language may not actually
talk, but they nonetheless
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More Genetic Differences Between Mice And Humans Than Previously Thought
A new article explores
exactly what distinguishes
our genome from that of the
lab mouse. In the first
comprehensive comparison
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Mouse Model Of Parkinson's Reproduces Nonmotor Symptoms
June 30, 2009 — Nonmotor symptoms of Parkinson's include digestive and sleep problems, loss of sense of smell and depression. A mouse with a mutation in a gene responsible for packaging neurotransmitters like ... > full story -
Protein That Protects Sperm, Reduces Miscarriage Rates Identified
June 26, 2009 — Researchers have identified a protein that helps protect immature mouse sperm from oxidative stress. When male mice over one year old lacking this protein were mated with normal female mice, an ... > full story -
Severely Memory-deficit Mutant Mouse Created
June 20, 2009 — A Japanese research group has successfully generated a novel kinase-dead mutant mouse of the CaMKIIalpha gene that completely and exclusively lacks its kinase activity. They examined hippocampal ... > full story -
Investigating The Development Of Mechanosensitivity
May 28, 2009 — Researchers have gained crucial insight into how mechanosensitivity arises. By measuring electrical impulses in the sensory neurons of mice, neurobiologists and pain researchers were able to directly ... > full story -
City Rats Are Loyal To Their Neighborhoods
May 27, 2009 — In the rat race of life, one thing is certain: there's no place like home. Now, a study finds the same is true for rats. Although inner city rodents appear to roam freely, most form distinct ... > full story -
New Mouse Model For Understanding Cause Of Progressive Hearing Loss
May 5, 2009 — Scientists have developed a new mouse model that can be associated with deafness. With this model they succeeded for the first time in showing that microRNA, a new class of genes, influences hearing ... > full story -
Bypassing Stem Cells: Adult Skin Cells Turned Into Muscle Cells And Vice Versa
May 1, 2009 — Researchers are now able to reprogram human adult skin cells into other cell types in order to decipher the elusive mechanisms underlying reprogramming. To demonstrate their point, they transformed ... > full story -
Orthodoxy On How Macrophages Kill Bacteria Overturned With New Study
April 28, 2009 — For decades, microbiologists assumed that macrophages, immune cells that can engulf and poison bacteria and other pathogens, killed microbes by damaging their DNA. A new study disproves ... > full story -
New Ebolavirus Vaccine Protects Against Lethal Infection in Animal Models
April 23, 2009 — A new experimental Ebola vaccine is one step closer to realization, having proven its ability to protect against lethal infections in animal ... > full story -
Humanized Mouse Infected With HIV Vaginally And Rectally Allows Testing
April 21, 2009 — A "humanized mouse" has allowed physician-scientists to conduct HIV/AIDS studies that would have been impossible without such a small animal model of HIV infection. The virus only infects humans and ... > full story
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