Sentences with phrase «larger than the mouse»

The reconstruction of a non-human primate brain, with a volume 100 times larger than a mouse brain, is being considered for a later study.

Not exact matches

This and subsequent similar experiments used guinea pig brains because they're larger and easier to work with than mouse brains.

Several years ago, while creating a genetically engineered mouse that expresses high levels of the mouse HMGA1 gene to investigate its role in leukemia, Resar and her colleagues made the chance finding that the intestines of these animals were much larger and heavier than those of «wild - type» animals (or control mice that were not genetically modified).

A powerful X-ray tomography scanner allowed the researchers to image particularly thick sections of the brains of mice, which afforded them views into intact neural areas much larger than are customary in microscope imaging.

In contrast, M49, a less virulent strain of strep, caused larger skin lesions in mice lacking cathelicidin than in normal, cathelicidin - producing mice.

Mice that were exposed to the two compounds had larger and denser breast cancer tumors than the control group.

Their tumors were also larger and more frequent than in mice not exposed to triclosan.

How seriously do you want to take the advice of a much - hyped 2008 Boston University study declaring that weight lifting can burn more fat than cardio exercise, when the conclusions were based entirely on sedentary mice genetically engineered to have bizarrely large muscles?

(Because those rodents have larger teeth than mice, a drilled rat molar better approximates human tooth decay.)

To show why, he pulls out a raft of study results collected in a large three - ring binder and points to several studies showing that mice subjected to stress developed more cancers than normal mice.

«The dog has a retina very similar to ours, much more so than mice, so when you want to bring a visual therapy to the clinic, you want to first show that it works in a large animal model of the disease,» said lead researcher Ehud Isacoff, professor of molecular and cell biology at UC Berkeley.

As a result, the embryos carrying human HARE5 have brains that are 12 % larger than the brains of mice carrying the chimp version of the enhancer.

The muscle fibers were larger and more numerous than in normal mice, and even after a year the mutant mice show no other abnormalities.

In a study using mice, the researchers found that using Dox and TRAIL in the pseudo-platelet drug delivery system was significantly more effective against large tumors and circulating tumor cells than using Dox and TRAIL in a nano - gel delivery system without the platelet membrane.

Researchers at the University of Texas (U.T.) Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas noticed that mice used two primary methods to cope with defeat after being repeatedly pummeled by larger, more aggressive foes: Some of the weaker members withdrew, avoiding all types of social interaction for more than a month, whereas others rolled with the punches, so to speak, quickly bouncing back to their normal behavior.

In WT animals, responses to all tastants except 5 mm quinine were larger under urethane anesthesia than with pentobarbital (Fig. 7B, Table 4), but this difference in response magnitude with anesthetic did not occur in the KO mice (Fig. 7C, Table 4), with the exception of sucrose.

Here, I show that overexpression of follistatin can also cause substantial muscle growth in mice lacking myostatin, demonstrating that other TGF - ß related ligands normally cooperate with myostatin to suppress muscle growth and that the capacity for enhancing muscle growth by targeting this signaling pathway is much larger than previously appreciated.

This result implies that only large treatment effects can be detected by efficacy studies in hAPP mice, since the number of mice per group will likely not be greater than 50, for practical and ethical reasons.

Although CRISPR is incredibly useful for generating mutations by NHEJ and generating small mutations with HDR, when it comes to larger scale genome editing, such as replacement of a mouse gene with its human ortholog (greater than 5 kb), it remains to be seen whether CRISPR is as robust as conventional gene targeting.

Secondly, the mouse genome is significantly smaller than the human genome, making it possible to detect a large number of lineage - specific deletion events [17, 19].

In 12 mice, MRI was able to detect the one relatively large tumor, 17 out of 18 small tumors that were smaller than a millimeter, and 13 out of 16 milk ducts that were distended with carcinoma in situ, including some tumors less than 300 microns in width, about one - third of a millimeter.

Oncotest, for example, provides drug - testing services to 16 of the 20 largest pharmaceutical companies, using a library of more than 350 PDX mouse models.

Mice with a single missing gene have brains that are 35 percent larger than normal, a new study found.

It should be noted, however, that while a study on senescent cell ablation in genetically normal mice would provide at least some evidence on the effect of senescent cells (and their ablation) on promoting cancer, even such a study would likely show less effect than could be anticipated in a large mammal model, since even normally - aging mice rarely suffer metastatic disease to the extent of aging humans, as sheer primary tumor volume is generally sufficient to be fatal to mice.

Hypercholesterolemia - prone mice that were engrafted with bone marrow obtained from homozygous or heterozygous Tet2 knockout mice had larger atherosclerotic lesions in the aortic root and aorta than did mice that had received control bone marrow.

In the process of exploring how the liver's daily cycles work, Panda found that mice which eat within a set amount of time (12 hours) resulted in slimmer, healthier mice than those who ate the same number of calories in a larger window of time, showing that when one eats may be as important as what one eats.

However, Itpkb - / - Rag2 - / - mice accumulated larger proportions of DN4 (33 % vs. 18 %), ISP (3 % vs. 1 %) and DP cells (20 % vs. 1 %) than Rag2 - / - mice on day 2 when Rag2 - / - mice barely had any DP cells.

Humans have much larger brains than mice, and as a result our carbohydrate needs are larger.

The latest video shows a new escort mission, where you'll be guiding a ball through a maze, using both your steady stream of ink and various contraptions around the course like a larger than life version of Mouse Trap...

The house is large, allowing for a good and robust cat and mouse game during the more stalk - y sections of the middle hour (and, to be honest, makes better use of the space than another film set in a giant house, August: Osage County).

A finger will tend to be less exact (and a larger area) than a mouse pointer.

These interactive panels are ultimately large, external screens connected to a computer, allowing the educator to operate and control any program installed on that computer via the interactive panel, using either their finger or stylus, rather than a mouse or track - pad.

The unique mouse - type computer controller is easier to operate than many other luxury cars» «user interfaces,» and the split - screen computer monitor is among the largest and most readable out there.

Fate plays a particularly rough game of cat and mouse with David, whose mouse's tale is notable for electric prose, ruminations about life, death and fate, and characters who are larger than life, larger than fate.

So far, the major publishers seem to be behaving like frightened mice rather than large businesses with markets to defend.

The keys are also larger than what you'll find on the Eee Pad Slider, and you get a tiny optical mouse for controlling the cursor along with two mouse buttons.

Even the largest rabbits weigh no more than 15 to 20 pounds, and mice and dwarf hamsters can weigh just an ounce or two.

A small mouse and a dwarf hamster can be about the same size, 2 inches, but the hamster's much shorter tail means he has a larger body than the smaller mouse.

Obviously, smaller animals like mice will require much less space than a larger pet like a Guinea pig.

Normally, across species, larger mammals live longer than their smaller counterparts; for instance, elephants can get up to 70 years old in the wild, while house mice reach only 4 years.

These are weaned mice that have opened their eyes and are much more mobile than even the largest fuzzy.

For the MICE market there is also a choice of meeting rooms, including a ballroom that can host large - scale events of more than 1,000 guests.

And although the name does conjure a reference to John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men, there is really no correlation between the two other than one character is small and crafty and the other is a large -LSB-...]

Or, to be fair, to two mice, one of them just slightly larger than the other.

STW is a bit of an artworld darling (aahh, she had cancer...) and the TV prog sunday night delivered her as a shallow and retiring little mouse with a large «it's who you know» shadow over her... Manipulated photos, air - violin videos etc. don't really provide much more than mainstream English whimsies.....

It's a little piece of hardware no larger than a wireless charger that lets you plug in your Galaxy S8, attaching it to a keyboard, mouse and monitor to transform it into a desktop - like environment.

Its width and length are both larger than most mice, which means it takes a bit of getting used to if you've been using a smaller mouse.

This system connects your phone to a display larger than your phone's built - in display and has you connect to devices like wireless keyboards and mice to control a desktop user interface just like you would any far larger PC.

The Mamba has no fewer than nine action buttons: There's the usual left and right button on top, two large thumb buttons in tandem on the left side, and two smaller buttons in tandem to the left of and slightly below the top left mouse button.

It's larger than your average mouse and feels more comfortable in the hand.