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Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is one of the deadliest forms of the disease, but now scientists may have a promising new avenue for treatment. By combining a new drug with an outdated one, the team found that they could halt growth of tumors in mice.Con… Continue reading Experimental drug combo halts growth of deadly lung cancer in mice
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is one of the deadliest forms of the disease, but now scientists may have a promising new avenue for treatment. By combining a new drug with an outdated one, the team found that they could halt growth of tumors in mice.Con… Continue reading Experimental drug combo halts growth of deadly lung cancer in mice
Climate change is threatening many species with extinction, so we owe it to them to try to help. Japanese scientists have now successfully cloned mice from freeze-dried adult cells, which can be stored easily for long periods of time. Importantly, the … Continue reading Mice cloned from freeze-dried cells could improve species conservation
Researchers at Francis Crick Institute and the University of Kent have used the CRISPR gene-editing system to produce litters of mice that are 100 percent either male or female. The technique could help prevent the unnecessary culling of animals of unw… Continue reading Groundbreaking use of CRISPR selects sex of mice with 100% efficiency
For those of us who remember old ball mice, they were a lot like modern optical mice except that they needed to be cleaned constantly. Having optical mice as a …read more Continue reading Smart Ruler Has Many Features
Well, it looks like those fetus fields from The Matrix (1999) just became a little bit more plausible. Although people-growing is probably a long way off, mice can now mostly …read more Continue reading Mice Develop Inside an Artificial Womb
The short- and long-term impacts of the space environment on the human body is still a great unknown, and one that a number of research groups are trying to get to the bottom of. The results of an interesting experiment in which muscled-up mice were sent into space has shed some new light on the matter, revealing that these brawny rodents could retain their muscle mass in low-gravity when engineered to lack a certain protein.
Tags: Muscle, Bones, Mice, International Space Station
Continue reading Engineered “Mighty Mice” sent to space retain their mass in low gravity
A new study, led by scientists from Harvard University, is offering more compelling evidence of a link between the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and the gut microbiome. One researcher described the discovery as “remarkable”, after … Continue reading ALS and gut bacteria linked in “remarkable” new Harvard study
Mice can interpret speech phonemes correctly up to 80% of the time without falling for semantic hoodwinks like humans do. Continue reading Fake news doesn’t (always) fool mice
When embarking on a career in the life sciences, it seems like the choice of which model organism to study has more than a little to do with how it fits into the researcher’s life. I once had a professor who studied lobsters, ostensibly because they are a great model for many questions in cell biology; in actuality, he just really liked to eat lobster. Another colleague I worked with studied salt transport in shark rectal glands, not because he particularly liked harvesting said glands — makes the sharks a tad grumpy — but because he really liked spending each …read more