Sentences with phrase «mouse ear holes»
So she did, and there an expert told her: «Oh no, mouse ear holes absolutely do not close.»
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Ellen Heber - Katz, a scientist at The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, used to study autoimmunity — that was until she noticed something strange in the mice she was using to model lupus: The small holes that she had poked in their ears to distinguish the animals from one another kept closing.
Heber - Katz says another scientist working with the mouse model of lupus also noticed the closing ear holes, but thought of it as an inconvenience rather than a eureka moment, saying, «These darn mice, you have to keep going upstairs to punch holes in their ears!»
The difference might be subtle: Researchers have identified one strain of mice that seals up ear holes in weeks, whereas typical strains never do.
As with the mice, the team will inject the viral gene package directly into the volunteers» cochlea by peeling back their ear drum and passing a needle through a tiny hole made by a laser (see diagram).
Holes punched into the ears to tag the mice, she says, healed without any signs of scar tissue.
In the course of his cancer research George Daley of Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School was trying to clip holes in the ears of genetically engineered mice so he could tell them apart when, surprisingly, the wounds kept healing.
Heber - Katz made her discovery after noticing that identification holes punched into the ears of experimental mice healed without any apparent scarring, according to Boston University.