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April 28, 2021

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New Evidence Shows Important Seabird Nutrients Reach Coral Reefs After Rat Eradication

Scientists have provided the first evidence to show that eradicating rats from tropical islands effects not just the biodiversity on the islands, but ...
A computer game that induces mice to experience hallucination-like events could be a key to understanding the ...
A possible explanation for why many cancer drugs that kill tumor cells in mouse models won't work in human trials has ...

Advanced Mouse Embryos Grown Outside the Uterus

To observe how a tiny ball of identical cells on its way to becoming a mammalian embryo first attaches to an awaiting uterine wall and then develops into nervous system, heart, stomach and limbs: ...
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Mouse Sperm Generated in Rats

Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) can make all the tissues including gametes such as sperm and eggs. Researchers report a robust method for the generation of gametes from PSCs using the body of rats that ...

Ensuring a Proper Body Plan

Researchers have shown that the enzyme lysine demethylase 7a helps ensure the ordered axial development of the mouse embryo by modulating Hox genes which specify positional characteristics along the ...

Gut Microbes: A Key to Normal Sleep

Researchers used a cocktail of antibiotics to deplete gut microbes in mice. They found that metabolites in the gut differed in these mice compared with controls. In particular, metabolic pathways ...

Effect of Odor on Helpfulness in Rats

Despite their reputation, rats are surprisingly sociable and regularly help each other out. Researchers have shown that a rat just has to smell another rat that is engaged in helpful behavior to ...

The Secret Social Lives of Giant Poisonous Rats

The African crested rat is the only mammal known to sequester plant toxins for chemical defense. A new study confirmed that the rabbit-sized rodent licks poison from the bark of Acokanthera ...

The Single X Chromosome of Male Fruit Flies Can Be Just as Active as the Two X Chromosomes of Females Thanks to Two Sticky Molecules

Researchers have discovered how the MSL complex responsible for dosage compensation can distinguish the X chromosome from autosomes in flies. A lab used a unique research approach to determine the ...

Rats Are Capable of Transmitting Hantavirus

Researchers have confirmed Germany's first-ever case of animal-to-human transmission involving a specific species of virus known as the 'Seoul virus'. Researchers were able to confirm ...

Organoids Produce Embryonic Heart

Bioengineers have used organoids - tiny lab-grown organs - to mimic the early development of the heart in the mouse embryo. The work is another step towards future bioartificial organs for research ...

Hydroxychloroquine Does Not Counter SARS-CoV-2 in Hamsters, High Dose of Favipiravir Does: Study

Virologists have shown that a treatment with the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine does not limit SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus replication in hamsters. A high dose of the anti-flu drug favipiravir, by ...

The World's First Successful Identification and Characterization of in Vivo Senescent Cells

A research team generated a p16-Cre ERT2 -tdTomato mouse model to characterize in vivo p16 high cells at the single-cell level. They found tdTomato-positive p16 high cells detectable in all organs, ...

RTL1 Gene a Likely Culprit Behind Temple and Kagami-Ogata Syndromes

Researchers have found that Rtl1, which is a mouse ortholog of the human RTL1 gene, appears to be the major gene responsible for muscle and placental defects in models of Temple and Kagami-Ogata ...

High Throughput Screening Identifies Molecules That Reduce Cellular Stress

A new article describes the discovery of several promising small molecules that appear to reduce cellular stress in mouse skin cells and could lengthen ...

Humans Develop More Slowly Than Mice Because Our Chemistry Is Different

Scientists have found that the 'segmentation clock' -- a genetic network that governs the body pattern formation of embryos -- progresses more slowly in humans than in mice because the ...

Why Rats Would Win Australian Survivor

Australian rodents skulls all correspond to one simple, size-dependent shape that is more than ten million years old but it turns out this lack of change is the secret behind their survivor ...

Mouse-Adapted SARS-CoV-2 Model Provides New Tool for COVID-19 Discoveries

A new mouse model is laying the groundwork for antivirals, vaccines and antibodies in the fight against COVID-19. In some cases, the model is the first to show these medical countermeasures work in a ...

Tag Team Gut Bacteria Worsen Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis

Researchers have discovered that a particular combination of microorganisms in the gut can worsen symptoms in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis. The study shows that two specific gut bacteria ...

Down Syndrome Mice Open Door to Better Understanding of the Disorder

Researchers have created and characterized a new mouse replica of Down syndrome, long considered one of the most challenging disorders to simulate in laboratory ...

Autism: How a Gene Alteration Modifies Social Behavior

A team of researchers has discovered a new connection between a genetic alteration and social difficulties related to autism: A mutation in the neuroligin-3 gene reduces the effect of the hormone ...

Researchers Develop New Mouse Model for SARS-CoV-2

Researchers have developed a new mouse model to study SARS-CoV-2 infection and disease and to accelerate testing of novel treatments and vaccines against the novel coronavirus. The study also ...

In Mouse Study, Black Raspberries Show Promise for Reducing Skin Inflammation

In a study done with mice, researchers found that a diet high in black raspberries reduced inflammation from contact hypersensitivity -- a condition that causes redness and inflammation in the ...

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