The hair of the Woolly Mouse grows up to three times longer than that on wild mice. These are cold-resistant traits, and are ...

One advantage of using G1 mice with an F1 hybrid background (an F1 hybrid is the offspring of two different inbred lines) is that the G2 progenies obtained from the backcrosses between a mutant ...

A mutation in this gene greatly increases the risk of colorectal cancer. One set of mice had a copy of the mutant APC gene and a gut full of inflammatory bacteria, an environment known to promote ...

Mayo Clinic's Precision Mouse Engineering Core in Minnesota produces CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knockout and point mutant mice for researchers.

Researchers also found that mutant vimentin made breast cancer cells grow without depending on the hormone oestrogen when injected into immuno-compromised mice. The tumours in these mice showed ...