Word: miceli
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...When I was eight, I was massacring the summer reading contest at my local library. I would walk around, book open, eyes glued to the page. And if that wasn’t enough, I had a penchant for writing short stories, a large number of which involved sarcastic mice narrators. Certainly a chance to write a poem or create a tale or write an editorial would be a fun way to spend a summer...
...extends the lifespan of every organism it has been put into,” he said of the gene, adding that these organisms include yeast, worms, and fruit flies. Tests on mice are currently ongoing...
Sinclair said that he and his fellow researchers are in the process of establishing the individual purpose of each gene in order to determine which ones can be used for medicines. They are currently using one of the genes in the Sir2 family to protect mice from brain disorders analogous to Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and Huntington’s Disease, he said...
...quest to duplicate a dogbeen something of a Holy Grail in the tricky field of mammalian cloning. Since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996, scientists have followed with pigs, cattle, mice, rabbits, horses and cats. But though they tried mightily, nobody had ever created a genetic double of man's best friend. Not, that is, until South Korean researcher Woo Suk Hwang and his team at Seoul National University brought Snuppy the puppy into the world--an animal whose entire genome came from a single cell from the ear of a three-year-old Afghan hound. Snuppy...
With so many animals already cloned - sheep, cows, mice, cats - what is so important about the successful cloning of a dog announced Thursday in Korea...