News Source: Uinta County News
| 6 months ago
The finding could help shed light on how humans evolved language and speech. Mice are often used to study the causes and effects of human diseases because they share many genetic similarities with us. "In the last decade or so, we've come to realized...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| 6 months ago
A new paper, published in this week's issue of PLoS Biology , explores exactly what distinguishes our genome from that of the lab mouse. In the first comprehensive comparison between the genes of mice and humans, scientists from institutions across...
News Source: Uinta County News
| 6 months ago
You might call it a $40 million mouse house: Jackson Laboratory has a new 85,000 square-foot facility in Sacramento dedicated to biomedical research. About 100 people work out of the state-of-the-art building, but that number is expected to double in...
News Source: BBC
| 6 months ago
Scientists have finished sequencing the mouse genome after a 10-year effort. The humble mouse is the experimental workhorse in laboratories worldwide, so this high-quality genome sequence will aid in the fight against human disease. The search for...