Sentences with phrase «adult laboratory mice»
But, as journalist Steve Connor reports, the reference to editing was intentional: «Scientists have used the genome - editing technology to cure adult laboratory mice of an inherited liver disease by correcting a single «letter» of the genetic alphabet which had been mutated in a vital gene involved in liver metabolism.»
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In a new study published in Science, the laboratory of Sebastian Jessberger, professor in the Brain Research Institute of the University of Zurich, has shown for the first time the process by which neural stem cells divide and newborn neurons integrate in the adult mouse hippocampus.
Xiaowei «George» Xu, MD, PhD, associate professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Dermatology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and colleagues published in Nature Communications a method for converting adult cells into epithelial stem cells (EpSCs), the first time anyone has achieved this in either humans or mice.
The dual appointment allows him to conduct experiments that compare genetic programming in the highly regenerative animals used as models at the MDI Biological Laboratory with genetic programming in neonatal and adult mice.