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Rodents are warm-blooded mammals that can be found throughout the world. They have oversized front teeth for gnawing and check teeth which can damage buildings, contaminate food, and transmit diseases to people.
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FEB 25, 2023Health & Medicine
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FEB 25, 2023
Health & Medicine
MRI scans are powerful diagnostic tools. In the 1990s they became commonly used, and contrast agents that contain the ra
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 22, 2023
Microbiology
In a first, scientists have used bat cells to create bat induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which can now be used t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 22, 2023
Health & Medicine
The number of rodents used in biomedical research is unclear, but estimates have ranged from 10 million to over 100 mill
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 04, 2023
Health & Medicine
The new anti-psychotic lumateperone was developed to treat schizophrenia and bipolar I and II disorder in adults. But wh
...
Written By:
Amielle Moreno
JAN 02, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
A study using artificial intelligence to analyze large datasets outlining gene expression in many different species has
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 29, 2022
Cannabis Sciences
Cannabis affects the aging process in surprising ways - here's the good news for older consumers of the plant
Written By:
Helaine Krysik
DEC 19, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
About 10,000 years ago in an area of the Middle East known as the Fertile Crescent, humans began to settle as farmers in
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 29, 2022
Drug Discovery & Development
A common chemotherapy drug may make future generations more susceptible to disease. The corresponding study was publishe
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
NOV 22, 2022
Microbiology
When researchers have studied infections in animal models, they have typically focused on the pathogen and the host. But
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 06, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Added sugars are in many food products, and they are difficult to avoid even when you're trying, and high sugar diets ha
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 05, 2022
Plants & Animals
Equipped with a mohawk, a long sharp beak, and a quick stride the roadrunner has the tools and cunning to adapt to a rug
...
Written By:
Timothy James
OCT 24, 2022
Neuroscience
Lawyer Henry T. Greely analyzes the relevance of Mary Shelley's classic, "Frankenstein," in light of today's bioscience
SEP 11, 2022
Drug Discovery & Development
Researchers found that mice more consistently experience antidepressant effects from ketamine when administered by men a
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
SEP 05, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
An image by Wang Qiang shows a mouse that carries two chromosomes fused together, the first engineered karyotype in mice
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 04, 2022
Microbiology
The microbes in our gut are indispensable to our health, and they are affected by what we eat. New research has used a m
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 15, 2022
Plants & Animals
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences discusses hibernation as the sec
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 10, 2022
Health & Medicine
Zoonotic diseases, which can jump from one species to another, are not unusual. As the world's population rises and the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 03, 2022
Clinical & Molecular DX
With the 2020 Covid lockdowns still fresh in our minds, the recent outbreak of monkeypox in the United States has many p
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 24, 2022
Microbiology
Lassa virus infections are asymptomatic in about 80 percent of people. But the virus also causes Lassa fever (LF), which
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 01, 2022
Clinical & Molecular DX
Mammals, including humans, have at least two different types of fat tissue. White fat is the tissue where energy is prim
...
Written By:
Zoe Michaud
JUN 19, 2022
Microbiology
Scientists have long sought to understand how Yersinia pestis, a gram-negative bacterium that causes plague, evolved int
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 13, 2022
Immunology
Breast milk is known to be highly beneficial for newborns; it provides nutrients and antibodies, including those that ar
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 23, 2022
Drug Discovery & Development
Researchers at Texas Children’s Hospital have identified a possible cause of infantile spasms (IS) as well as a po
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
MAY 20, 2022
Health & Medicine
First COVID, then mysterious hepatitis cases among children, now monkeypox – a rare viral illness being detected i
...
Written By:
Alexandria Bass