When Robertson knocked out the Igf2 gene in mouse mothers, nothing happened; the offspring were normal. (discovermagazine.com)
«Once implanted in surrogate mouse mothers, the embryos developed normally — except for the fact that each mouse was growing a rat pancreas» [or heart, or eyes], said the Salk Institute's own news analysis — which, incidentally, called the Salk team's paper a «tour de force.» (fortune.com)
Researchers have found that offspring of mouse mothers fed a diet enhanced with cherry and mint flavors during pregnancy continued to prefer these flavors into adulthood, while mice from mothers fed on a bland diet had no food preference. (sciencemag.org)