Sentences with phrase «lab mice bred»

Ellen Heber - Katz, an immunologist at the Wistar Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, came upon the peculiar animals when she ordered lab mice bred for studying the overactive immune response in lupus.

But in a 2012 study, they found that when they injected synthetic amyloids into lab mice bred to have an MS - like brain inflammation, the mice got better and were able to walk again.

Lab mice bred to be «perfect» controls live a pampered lifestyle that alters their physiology.

Not exact matches

Loving points out that in her lab, many responsibilities are shared among lab members — such as breeding mice, taking care of them, and cleaning the biosafety level 3 facility.

Christiano's lab uses specially bred mice to pinpoint genes involved in hair loss.

MLVs so dependably cause cancer in lab - bred mice — especially leukemia and lymphoma — that a small fraternity of scientists at the NCI and elsewhere has fruitfully studied these viruses since the 1960s in an effort to understand how human cancer begins.

Geneticist Jiří Forejt of the Czech Academy of Sciences» Institute of Molecular Genetics in Prague wasn't looking for it when he caught wild mice and bred them with lab mice to study diversity of immune system genes.

In working with mice, researcher Jeffrey Mogil, at McGill University's Pain Genetics Lab, has found that the response to pain can vary tremendously by breed and by gender.

Cells from mice bred in Singh's lab to lack PU.1 allowed the researchers to manipulate the cells» decision - making machinery by introducing different amounts of PU.1.

Deer mice and oldfield mice, however, don't breed in the wild but it's a different case in the lab environment.