Sentences with phrase «other than mice»

And no major critters in our home, other than mice (and spiders... eek!

Dr. Michael Kastan, executive director of Duke Cancer Institute, said the time is right to compare treatments in people to treatments in animals other than mice, which are intentionally given diseases in a lab setting.

Space for housing limited numbers of small animal species other than mice is also available upon request.

CRISPR has opened the door to do gene editing in many species other than mice.

For now, the question is how effective the drug will be in animals other than mice.

«This is the first study to offer an unbiased profile of novel imprinted genes in a mammal other than mice,» said lead author Xu Wang, a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Andrew Clark, professor of molecular biology and genetics and the study's senior author.

The group also found that the virus could be detected in fetal tissues other than mouse brain tissue, such as the lymph nodes.

Input devices other than a mouse and keyboard are not supported

Not exact matches

The technology behind mice, keyboards and other computing peripherals is older than you think.

[These games] are the cultural equivalent of genetic engineering, except that in this experiment, even more than the other one, we will be the potential new hybrids, the two - pound mice.

Recovery asks for a willingness to acknowledge that some power other than ourselves (the one who messed us up), whether that power is — Jesus Christ, Jehovah, Buddha, Nature, Mighty Mouse, or a nameless personal belief that there is a higher power that guides us (Philip Kavanaugh, M.D., Magnificent Addiction [Santa Rosa, CA: Aslan Publishing, 1992], p. 132; bold faced added).

It's probably safe to say that most people love adorable little mice in all forms other than as real, breathing critters.

We don't own any power tools other than an electric drill and a Mouse sander.

It is easily the best mouse bait poison and works quicker than a lot of other mousetrap baits.

Some mice have longer battery life than others, so this is a spec worth checking.

The behavioral tests used here modeled one dimension of the disease — an inability to experience pleasure from normal activities — but not others, such as stress and anxiety, and probably tap into different brain mechanisms in mice than in humans, he says.

When researchers examined the animals over the next several months, they found that this approach cured a much higher proportion of mice than delivery of the drug by other techniques.

Mice with one particular extra section of the human chromosome spent significantly less time hunting for the platform in its original location than did mice carrying other chromosome portiMice with one particular extra section of the human chromosome spent significantly less time hunting for the platform in its original location than did mice carrying other chromosome portimice carrying other chromosome portions.

Despite the presumed virulence of the strain — experiments with mouse lungs showed it produces 1000 times more bacteria in infected cells than do standard varieties — Valway says the number of TB cases that developed were kept in line with other typical outbreaks, which «shows that doing good contact investigations is important and preventative therapy works.»

Three groups of middle - aged mice (about a year old) were studied: one group ate a normal diet, in which fewer than 30 percent of calories came from fat, while two others were fed high - calorie diets in which 60 percent of the calories came from fat.

Base oxidation regulates gene activity In cooperation with colleagues at LMU, as well as researchers based in Berlin, Basel and Utrecht, Carell and his group have now shown, for the first time, that a standard base other than cytosine is also modified in embryonic stem cells of mice.

In fact, both of the studies found that when adenosine was turned on in mouse tissue by other mechanisms, the pain response was equal to or better than the response generated by acupuncture.

Then, he found that mice lacking Klotho died young, after developing arteriosclerosis and other age - related conditions much earlier than normal (Science, 7 November 1997, p. 1013).

The HSP70 - boosted mice were much better than the others at finding their way around mazes, and post-mortems showed their brains to be free of the characteristic beta - amyloid plaques that clog the brains of people with Alzheimer's.

For each mouse, the microbial mix matched its owner's hand more closely than any other sample.

To ensure the introduced protein didn't interact with other parts of the neuron, the team used the mouse version of the gene rather than the nematode's usual invertebrate version.

Mice from Chelsea, heavier than mice from other sites, also carried more viruMice from Chelsea, heavier than mice from other sites, also carried more virumice from other sites, also carried more viruses.

When we treat mice with resveratrol, it doesn't do anything other than make them sick.»

Compared with earlier methods to tweak the genomes of bacteria, plants, laboratory mice and human cells, the Crispr - Cas9 gene - editing method is fast, precise and cheap, an order of magnitude better than the others.

Stevens and her colleagues manipulated mice to make one eye more active than the other, creating a disparity in activity between the two neural circuits linking the eyes to the brain.

By 2003 other scientists had genetically manipulated mice to be relatively insensitive to either insulin or insulin - like growth factor; in both cases, the genetically engineered mice lived significantly longer than normal mice.

The Mail — and a host of other outlets — was covering new research that created mice with two mothers, which lived much longer than those conceived normally.

Other researchers had linked the ank mutation to mouse chromosome 15; in this week's Science, Kingsley's team reports that it's a single typo in a previously unknown gene, which they called ank, that led to a protein about 10 % shorter than the normal version.

While feasting, the animals — just slightly bigger than mice — huddle together in a small group and appear to lick each other's faces.

Initial tests on mice showed the hybrid virus was very efficient: the gene it carried was active in 24 per cent of airway cells after two months, a far better proportion than achieved by other delivery methods (New Scientist, 10 March 2001, p 19).

Stem cells harvested from embryos rather than adults remain the most powerful for cloning and other purposes; Yang's team showed that cloning from such cells succeeded in 49 percent of attempts and led to 18 mouse pups.

When researchers transferred antibody - rich serum from vaccinated to unvaccinated mice, the unvaccinated animals were also protected from later H5N1 infection, an indication that the protection came from antibodies rather than from other immune system components.

In a boost for a controversial theory of aging, mice engineered to make a human protein that sponges up cell - damaging molecules live 19 % longer than other mice.

If expertise in using a computer mouse doesn't generalize to other motor skills, migrant workers without previous computer experience should do far worse than the other two groups on these other tests.

Philip Laipis of the University of Florida, who has also observed tumors in AAV vector - treated mice, agrees, at least for studies using a similarly high dose of AAV to target liver cells, which are more likely than other cell types to take up the AAV vector.

Levels of A-beta in the blood of mice that received APOE2 were higher than in the other groups, suggesting that the protective variant had increased clearance of A-beta from the brain.

All of the mice lost some weight, but some lost significantly more than others — and faster.

«Simply by counting cell types, we immediately saw that there were more Tregs in the older mice with diabetes than any other group.»

The researchers also tested the pathogenicity of the virus by using it to infect mice, which succumbed more quickly than mice infected with other H5N1 strains.

Zeroing in on this kinase was encouraging, Goga said, because other researchers have shown that genetic - knockout mice that lack the entire family of PIM kinases are slightly smaller than normal mice, but «basically fine,» indicating that a drug targeting just PIM1 may have manageable levels of toxicity in breast cancer patients.

Green says that the treatments may last longer in humans than in mice, but clinical trials will not begin before further testing in other animals.

They found that germ - free mice broke down brain chemicals associated with anxiety, such as noradrenaline and dopamine, faster than did the other mice.

Mice lacking a type of pain receptor live significantly longer than other mice, and have a more youthful metabolMice lacking a type of pain receptor live significantly longer than other mice, and have a more youthful metabolmice, and have a more youthful metabolism.

The mice given S -4-CPG developed less vasospasm, looked better and were more active than those in the other two groups.

On the other hand, as they aged, these «knockout mice» grew fatter than the normal mice, especially when fed a high - fat diet.