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BETHESDA, Md., Wed., March 31, 2004 – An international research team, supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced it has completed a high-quality, draft sequence of the ...

Scientists have published nearly the entire genome of the common rat, making it possible to compare it to the genetic maps of people and mice. That ability is expected to yield clues into evolution ...

Germ cell production in genetically modified hybrid animals is now a reality rather than science fiction, as recently demonstrated by researchers at ETH Zurich. Stem cell biologist Ori Bar-Nur, PhD, ...

Mouse pancreases grown in rats generate functional, insulin-producing cells that can reverse diabetes when transplanted into mice with the disease, according to researchers. Rat-grown mouse pancreases ...

In a shoebox-sized cage on their own floor in the Anderson Building at the Baylor College of Medicine, two little white mice with pink ears and skinny tails scurry over a bedding of corncob strips.