Smart Ruler Has Many Features
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
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Mice Develop Inside an Artificial Womb
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
Engineered “Mighty Mice” sent to space retain their mass in low gravity
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
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ALS and gut bacteria linked in “remarkable” new Harvard study
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
Fake news doesn’t (always) fool mice
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
Katrina Nguyen Automates Her 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
Parasitic Worms Are Weed Edibles for Mice
These worms may be the key to targeted, natural treatments for inflammatory bowel diseases. Continue reading Parasitic Worms Are Weed Edibles for Mice
Watch a Human Mind-Control a Cyborg Mouse
A group of researchers used optogenetics and brain implants to make mice ignore sex and food. Continue reading Watch a Human Mind-Control a Cyborg Mouse
A Universal USB To Quadrature Encoder
Computer mice existed long before the Mac, and most of the old 8-bit computers had some software that could use a mouse. These mice had balls and quadrature encoders. While converters to turn these old mice into USB devices exist, going the other way isn’t so common. [Simon] has developed the answer to that problem in the form of SmallyMouse2. It turns a USB mouse into something that can be used with the BBC Micro, Acorn Master, Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Atari ST and more.
The design of the SmallyMouse2 uses an AT90USB microcontroller that supports USB device and host mode, …read more
Neuroscientists Hack Sense of Touch
By tweaking neural calcium levels, it’s possible to crank up and down touch sensations. Continue reading Neuroscientists Hack Sense of Touch