Sentences with phrase «breeding laboratory mice»
... the breeding of purebred dogs is akin to [breeding laboratory mice]... [most breeds] are becoming progressively more inbred.
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A lotion that stimulates production of the skin pigment melanin induces a deep tan in specially bred laboratory mice.
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Most animal studies of the disease are conducted with laboratory mice that have been genetically engineered and bred to model ALS, but for this research, investigators used rats with ALS because they more accurately portray the disease's variable course in humans.
In the Oct. 30 edition of Science, scientists describe strains of laboratory mice bred to test the role of an individual's genetic makeup in the course of Ebola disease.
In a series of publications today in the British scientific journal Nature, international teams of researchers published a nearly complete sequence of the genetic instructions of «Black 6,» the most common breed of laboratory mouse, and matched its traits with the recently decoded human genome.
Laboratory mice are carefully bred, fed, and raised in tightly controlled conditions so that each mouse has predictable traits and genetics.
When maintaining a live colony at The Jackson Laboratory Repository, homozygous mice may be bred together.
Tie2PEKO were generated by breeding Ng2 - Cre mice (Jackson Laboratory, # 008533) 39 with Tie2fl / fl mice bred in the C57 / Bl6 background37.
A breed of dwarf mouse that entirely lacks growth hormone is the present winner of the Mprize for longevity, living 60 - 70 % longer than the compeition's standard laboratory mouse species.
The laboratory mouse, small and easy to breed, has long been biologists» favorite model organism for studying mammalian development.
C57BL / 6 (wild type) and perforin - deficient (C57BL / 6 - Prf 1tm1Sdz / J, Prf1 − / −) mice were obtained from the Jackson Laboratory and bred in the Abramson Research Center Animal Facility at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
All mice were bred and housed in specific pathogen - free conditions at the Association of Laboratory Care - approved animal facility at the Life Science Addition, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
This breeding led to the creation of progenitors of modern laboratory mice as hybrids among M. m. domesticus, M. m. musculus and other subspecies.
Working in nerve cells growing in the laboratory and in the nervous system of specially bred mice, researchers showed for the first time that ATM and Tdp1 work cooperatively to repair breaks in DNA.
There are a large number of laboratory strains available, and their long breeding history means that mice of a single laboratory strain are isogenic.
The Stanford researchers employed young laboratory mice that had been specially bred and raised in aseptic environments so that, unlike ordinary mice (and ordinary humans), their intestines were devoid of any microbial inhabitants.