MIT's Mini Respirator Breathes Life Into Mutant Mice
...rket.) "With the new machine we now have a newborn clinic, more or less, formice." Dr. Poon ...her frequencies. "Such adaptability is neededsince newborn [mice] have never been tested before, and the proper ventilationtechniques are not certain," Dr. Poo...Study Links Viruses And Vascular Diseases
...h more controversial." Intriguingly, infections in newborn mice led to fatal vascular disease when theanimals were well into adulthood. "The infection doesn't cause vascular diseaseimmediately, but it seems to set the whole process in motion," Virgin says."This may suggest a model for how atherosclerosis and...UMass Researchers Announce Birth Of Genetically Modified Cloned Calves
...an unlimited number of exact copies -- clones. The newborn cloned transgenic calves have a specific gene which serves as a "marker" to confirm that they are the products of genetic engineering. The calves are notable because they lead the way to the production of similar animals that produce very large quant...Genetic "Short Circuit" Leads To Cleft Palate
... circuit, that when broken, causes cleft palate in newborn mice. The critical points of the circuit represent genes and gene products that interact with one another to direct palate formation. The "surge" that causes the circuit to break is an environmental assault in the form of steroid hormones given to ...Scientists Use IGF-I To Grow New Membranes Around Neurons
...ientists removed dorsal root ganglion neurons from newborn rats. The neurons were chemically treated to strip away the myelin sheath and any naturally occurring Schwann cells. The dissected nerves were maintained in a nutrient-rich culture medium. After undifferentiated Schwann cells from rat embryos wer......ety for Neuroscience's annual meeting. The newborn rats were overfed to duplicate nutritional conditi...iggeringgestational diabetes. Taylor says newborn rats are immature at birth so their first threeweeks of life correspond to that of a human fetus in ...First Salmonella Vaccine For Poultry To Be On The Market Soon
...g the bird sick. When given a dose of the vaccine, newborn chicks, breeders and laying hens develop a lifelong immunity to salmonella. The immunity is transferred to offspring and eggs that people consume. The vaccine is in its final stage of testing by scientists at Megan Health Inc. in St. Louis, a compa......ments reported in Nature, the Duke scientists used newborn ferrets, whose eyes had not yet opened, and thus, whose brain visual pathways had not yet fully developed. The scientists kept one eye of the infant ferrets closed, which normally results in atrophy of neurons in the brain region serving that eye, co...