Sentences with phrase «old lab mice»

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«When this question came up, I said, «Well, I have no idea,»» recalls Bartke, because the mice were always killed in the lab's endocrinology experiments before reaching old age.

All a team has to do is extend a lab mouse's life beyond the current record of 4.98 years — the equivalent of a 150 - year - old human.

Reyes lab began by treating old dystrophic mice with direct injection of THI.

In a lab at MIT her team has genetically fast - forwarded the mice into a condition much like dementia: They have problems making new memories and retrieving old ones.

«It's a nasty virus if you're a mouse» but doesn't sicken humans, Steel says of this 80 - year - old lab strain, known as PR8.

Woloschak's 1990s work on the old Argonne lab mouse samples provides some hope.

Using a technique called parabiosis, in which the vascular systems of two mice are surgically connected, Villeda's lab had previously discovered that infusing old mice with the blood of younger mice leads to brain rejuvenation, including improvements in learning and memory, while infusions of old blood cause premature brain aging in young mice.

However, removing huntingtin in mice older than 4 months appeared to cause no neurological problems, a stark contrast to the Dragatsis lab's work.

Her lab's most recent work, led by HMS Instructor Cristina Aguayo - Mazzucato, started instead with very old mice, created for another experiment, whose beta cells emitted fluorescent signals.

This is explained by another finding from the Karsenty lab: circulating levels of osteocalcin are much higher in younger mice than in older mice.

C.C. Little, the inventor of the modern lab mouse and founder of the Jackson Laboratory, had long used «the age old enmity of woman and the Muridae» as a sales pitch for his model organism.