Most common human diseases are complex, or polygenic. Rapidly growing genomic resources in the mouse facilitate complex trait analysis Extensive phenotypic differences exist between inbred strains ...

Incanomys mayopuma, or the Incan water mouse, is about 10 inches long and has traits such as a long flattened tail and large hindfeet with fringe hairs, which indicate it is strongly adapted to ...

The first step: Show a mouse video snippets of sci-fi movies, sports, animation and nature. A team at Baylor College of Medicine did just that, using a mouse engineered with a gene that makes its ...

“People always ask, is it nature or nurture,” Shah says ... and Shah notes that the mouse neurons in question have a similar function in other mammals. He even speculates that it could ...

Using a piece of a mouse’s brain no larger than a grain of ... published April 9 in the journal Nature marks “a watershed moment for neuroscience, comparable to the Human Genome Project ...

Scientists coaxed mouse stem cells to grow into synthetic ... Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and co-author of the new Nature paper. In their recent Cell study, Hanna's team used different ...

Robyn White is a Newsweek Nature Reporter based in London ... revealed that you may have had similar thought processes to a mouse when you were a baby. Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist ...

Original artwork from 'The Lion and the Mouse' heads to a museum — safe from kids’ sticky fingers The late children’s book illustrator Jerry Pinkney won the Caldecott Medal for his book The ...