Lab mice are getting their own back by deliberately messing up experiments
The humble lab mouse has been used in tests for hundreds of years, but it seems like the small rodents have been carrying out ...
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Laboratory mouse
The laboratory mouse or lab mouse is a small mammal of the order Rodentia which is bred and used for scientific research or feeders for certain pets. Laboratory mice are usually of the species Mus ...
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What lab mice are made of
Researchers have created genome-wide, high-resolution genetic maps of 100 inbred mouse strains. Compared with wild-derived strains, most of today's classical lab strains have limited genetic diversity ...
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Inside a Lab Mouse’s High-Fat Diet
“Mice are a good model for human obesity . . . but it seems to me that, for diet, the mouse literature has gone off track,” said Craig Warden, who studies the genetics of body fat accumulation at the ...