They found some changes to the DNA in the space samples, but not enough to affect the ability of the sperm to fertilize eggs or
produce baby mice.
Not exact matches
Using a
mouse model of HSV - 1 as well as autopsied samples of human adult and fetal tissues, investigators from Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine found that antibodies against HSV - 1
produced by adult women or female
mice could travel to the nervous systems of their yet unborn
babies, preventing the development and spread of infection during birth.
In that time, the normal
mice produced regularly, giving birth to a litter of seven or eight pups approximately every 21 days, for a total of about 60
baby mice.
The most prolific cell line, made at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla,
produced live
baby mice 13 percent of the time.