It’s tiny, but this lab mouse could have a mammoth impact. With curly whiskers and wavy, light hair that grows three times longer than that of an ordinary lab mouse, the genetically modified rodent ...
That’s the rallying cry of Megan Phifer-Rixey’s biology lab at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is seeking city mice — and their country cousins, too — to compare their DNA. Phifer-Rixey — who ...
A new marsupial species found in the Río Abiseo National Park, Marmosa chachapoya, contributes to the biological richness of ...
This photograph shows two fast-aging mice. The mouse on the left was treated with a FOXO4 peptide, which targets senescent cells and leads to hair regrowth in ten days. The mouse on the right was not ...
New York City ’s so-called rat czar has scurried away after a quiet-as-a-mouse tenure that was largely overtaken by trash.
When people get stressed, they often suffer hair loss. This condition, known as telogen effluvium, results from hair follicles going dormant. But the molecular cause of this switch is unknown. To ...
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