Although it has long been obvious that many other aspects of human biology and development should be amenable to mouse models, until recently, the tools just did not exist to allow for a genetic ...

The advantages of the mouse for behavioural studies include an extensive array of genetic technologies and an elaborate behavioural repertoire that can be used to create models of human disease.

Genetic scientists have spliced human DNA into mice, resulting in rodents with increased brain mass, offering new clues to ...

A new study shows that inserting human DNA into mice grow bigger brains, offering clues to human brain evolution.

A small segment of human DNA boosts brain size and complexity, revealing both the origins of intelligence and its ...

The scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore injected an ...

Genetic mutation in mice . To figure out what this gene mutation does, the researchers used mice. They made mice that had the ...

Box 1 New mouse models of complex human diseases Paigen, K. One hundred years of mouse genetics: an intellectual history. I. The classical period (1902–1980). Genetics 163, 1–7 (2003).

A newly identified mutation helps super-sleepers get by on just four to six hours of shut-eye per night, while the rest of us ...

In the earliest hours after fertilization, an embryo takes its first steps toward becoming a living organism by shedding ...