Sentences with phrase «using dead mice»

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The researchers used the dead guide RNAs to turn on the Pdx gene in the mice's livers, which caused the liver cells to produce insulin, reversing the mice's diabetes.

To do this, they switched from using dead tumour cell samples to patient - derived tumour cell lines, in which fresh samples of a person's tumour are grafted onto mice and grown to the required volumes.

That's because most studies on single human brain cells use dead rather than living tissue, and many others rely on cells from common laboratory animals, especially mice.

They're built into the mouse pad and there's a giant dead zone in the middle that's not signposted at all — it takes a bit of getting used to.

At Cooper Union in New York City, where Ms. Schwartz taught for nearly two decades, she would salvage the dead mice rounded up by the college's sanitation crews and freeze them for use in her work.

It's still worth learning how to use the touchpad for those times when your mouse batteries are dead and that drawer in the kitchen with a fresh or charged set seems miles away.

Finding the odd dead mouse by the back door is almost bearable, but damaged carpets and flooring from your cat sharpening its claws are a much more frustrating and costly problem (they've got a scratching block, why can't they use it?!).