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Digital Rat Brain Spontaneously Develops Organized Neuron Patterns
Blue BrainThis image is a 3-D model of what the connections in Blue Brain would look like if they were flesh and blood neurons, not computer code.Blue Brain Project, via The Wall Street...
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Scientists Create Mice from Reprogrammed Skin Cells
Skin BabyA mouse created by Chinese researchers who injected reprogrammed skin cells into an early-stage embryo.Qi ZhouChinese research bypasses the need for controversial embryonic stem cells Chinese...
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The Blue Dye in M&Ms Cures Spinal Injuries
AwwwwwUniversity of RochesterThanks to miracle compound BBG, mice turn blue, regain ability to walk The next time someone tries to argue that all M&Ms are the same, no matter the color, you can...
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Stem Cells Used To Grow a New Tooth Inside a Mouse's Mouth
Glowing Mouse Tooth via Pink TentacleJust the sound of a dentist's drill is enough to send most people into a panic. Add to that the awful inconvenience of walking around for a day with half your face...
View ArticleMutant Mice Are Bred to Order
Some are fat, others tiny. And one is just having a bad hair day Please enable Javascript to watch this video Head Tilt MouseEver since Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans, and Oliver Smithies created the...
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This Week in Wildlife: Scientists Discover Giant Rat, Ziggy Stardust-esque...
We're Gonna Need A Bigger Trap via CNNForget the Orkin Man; with pests like this, you might need to call Ripley. Scientists have recently discovered two new, giant versions of common pests. In this...
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Mouse Scampers on Giant Trackball, Plays Quake
Mouse in Virtual MazeDavid TankLab mice can say goodbye to clunky old non-virtual mazes In this video, a mouse runs through a virtual maze derived from a Quake 2 level, by steering a trackball...
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Hideous Rodent May Provide Cure For Cancer
Mole Pile The naked mole rat is immune to cancer. At last, scientists have figured out why Naked mole rats are unique in many ways. For one, they're the only mammals with a hive mind, obeying their...
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New Breed of Mice Retains Great Hearing (and Sex Lives) in Old Age
Hearing MouseA good listener and a great lover, even in its old ageScientists cross mice that have normal hearing with prolific breeders to get the best of both worlds in a new super mouse A group of...
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Glowing Prairie Rodents Teach Us the Genetics Of Monogamy
Transgenic Prairie VolesZoe Donaldson, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, via Science DailyMan, those scientists just love their glowing lab subjects. First came mice, and then recently the first...
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Switching a Gene in Adult Mice Easily Transforms Females Into Males
Minnie or Mickey?Roger McLassus via WikimediaThe technology might allow for mid-life human sex changes with no surgery Apparently men and women are not that different after all. In fact, the sexes are...
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Majority of U.S. Cocaine Supply Cut with Veterinary Deworming Drug
Cocaine BricksDEACocaine's a hell of a drug, and even more so when laced with another drug that's commonly used to deworm opossums. Federal agents have found that 69 percent of cocaine shipments seized...
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Lab Rats' Pampered Lifestyles Found to Skew Research Results
It Was A Hard Day At the Maze, I Deserve Another CookieJepoirrier, via Flickr.comSure, the maze gets boring every so often. And yeah, there's not much variety in the food. But compared to the kill or...
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Some Mice Have Become Immune to Poison Through Natural but Highly Unusual...
House Mouse With GloveRama via Wikimedia CommonsMice are great (see: high-endurance mice, mice with lab-grown artificial organs, Israeli bomb-sniffing security mice) but sometimes you just don't want...
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African Rat Smears Poison On Its Fur to Protect Itself From Predators
African Crested RatSusan Rouse/via Science DailyThe first mammal (except for humans) known to do such a thing We love seeing animals using tools, from dolphins using sponges to scrape the seafloor, to...
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Digital Rat Brain Spontaneously Develops Organized Neuron Patterns
Blue Brain This image is a 3-D model of what the connections in Blue Brain would look like if they were flesh and blood neurons, not computer code. Blue Brain Project, via The Wall Street JournalFour...
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Scientists Create Mice from Reprogrammed Skin Cells
Skin Baby A mouse created by Chinese researchers who injected reprogrammed skin cells into an early-stage embryo. Qi Zhou Chinese scientists have created live mice from mature skin cells that had...
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The Blue Dye in M&Ms Cures Spinal Injuries
Awwwww University of Rochester The next time someone tries to argue that all M&Ms are the same, no matter the color, you can tell them about the blue M&M. The candy (like Gatorade and other...
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Stem Cells Used To Grow a New Tooth Inside a Mouse's Mouth
Glowing Mouse Tooth via Pink Tentacle Just the sound of a dentist's drill is enough to send most people into a panic. Add to that the awful inconvenience of walking around for a day with half your...
View ArticleMutant Mice Are Bred to Order
View Photo Galleryhttp://ak.c.ooyala.com/B0Z2QxYjpWuw0gDc51ooQD2UOXUgkmKk/3Gduepif0T1UGY8H... Please enable Javascript to watch this video Head Tilt MouseEver since Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans, and...
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