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Blocking brain enzyme helped mice stay slim
kavin submitted, created time 8 months 23 hours (feeds.feedburner.com)
In this study, the researchers found that blocking a single brain enzyme helped short-circuit a key hunger signal in mice and made them eat less, lose weight and have better blood sugar control. While much more research lies ahead, they said the finding may lead to new treatments for obesity and diabetes in humans. 
Mice Sniff Out Oxygen With Their Skin
lily0558 submitted, created time 8 months 2 weeks (www.cell.com)
In this paper, researchers have found that a mouse's skin can sense oxygen levels in the air and that it helps regulate the number of oxygen-carrying red blood cells in the body. It is potential that human skin may behave the same way, which could open the door for new ways to boost blood cell levels for athletes seeking to gain an edge or patients with anemia. But they don't yet know how the skin senses the gas.It maybe because of mouse skin containing the same oxygen-sensitive potassium channels as the lung. Humans also carry the HIF-1α gene
Mice Can Sense Oxygen Through Their Skin
siemens submitted, created time 8 months 2 weeks (www.medicinenet.com)
Mice can sense oxygen through their skin, says a new study that showed the skin plays a major role in sensing oxygen levels in the environment and in stimulating kidney production of the hormone erythropoietin (EPO) when oxygen levels decline.
Solution for NYC Bodega rodent problem
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 2 weeks (www.nytimes.com)
The problem: The bodega owners will be fined for keeping cats in the stores, but a live cat is a thousand time more effective against rodents than traps and exterminators are.
Remember all those articles about pheromones? (http://www.discover8.com/article/Parasites_ingenious_tricks_are_protozoans_making_you_more_daring__0)
The solution: MAKE AN ANTI-RAT SPRAY THAT SMELLS LIKE CAT PEE.
Protein found to turn up metabolism in mice
Eric wu submitted, created time 1 year 1 month (www.reuters.com)
Tricking muscle tissue to burn rather than store fat has succeeded in increasing the average life span of mice and staved off some age-related diseases, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
Missing DNA fails to kill mice
wugongliang submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.theregister.co.uk)
DNA sequences we share with mice might not be as important as researchers previously thought. A series of experiments on mice at Berkeley have cast doubt on the notion that these so-called ultraconserved elements of DNA are indispensable, after test mice with sequences snipped out managed to grow up just fine.
How does day length affect aggression in mice? It's in the genes
alpha submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.biologynews.net)
"Imagine if a naturally occurring chemical in your body could help make you feel more calm and relaxed – but it would only work during the long days of summer.
The same chemical would, instead, make you aggressive and nasty when you were exposed to less daylight during the winter. "
UF researchers awaken vision cells in blind mice
badboy submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.biologynews.net)
"University of Florida researchers used gene therapy to restore sight in mice with a form of hereditary blindness, a finding that has bearing on many of the most common blinding diseases.
Writing online in today’s (May 21) edition of Nature Medicine, scientists describe how they used a harmless virus to deliver corrective genes to mice with a genetic impairment that robs them of vision. "
In young mice, gregariousness seems to reside in the genes
amanda submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.biologynews.net)
"That may well be true for many adult animals, but in a groundbreaking study researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found evidence that social interactions among young mice result from basic motivations to be with one another. What's more, the researchers say, the extent of a young mouse's gregariousness is influenced by its genetic background. “
Like Goldilocks, mice know a bed that's 'just right'
badboy submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.newscientist.com)
'Just like Goldilocks, mice have an innate sense of what makes a good bed: a specific group of cells in their brains becomes active when they see a potential nesting spot – but only if it perfectly matches their size. "
Inserted human gene makes mice see red
alpha submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.newscientist.com)
"Mice engineered to produce a human protein in their eyes develop dramatically enhanced colour vision, a new study reveals. "
Role of Host Cytokine Responses in the Pathogenesis of Avian H5N1 Influenza Viruses in Mice
athena submitted, created time 1 year 10 months (jvi.asm.org)
Highly pathogenic avian H5N1 influenza viruses are now widespread in poultry in Asia and have recently spread to some African and European countries. Interspecies transmission of these viruses to humans poses a major threat to public health.
Drug May Counteract Down Syndrome
catherine submitted, created time 1 year 10 months (www.sciam.com)
Researchers may have finally found a drug candidate for reducing the mental retardation caused by Down syndrome, which afflicts more than 350,000 people in the U.S. Researchers gave low doses of a human drug to mice bred to mimic the learning and memory problems in people with Down syndrome. After as little as two weeks, the impaired mice performed as well as normal ones in learning tests, and the improvement lasted for up to two months after treatment ended. But there is a catch the drug was taken off the market 25 years ago after being found to cause dangerous seizures in some people
Virgin Births Lead to Transplantable Stem Cells
nomad submitted, created time 1 year 11 months (www.sciam.com)
In the future individual egg cells may serve as the source for stem cells that doctors can transplant back into people if necessary to treat nerve damage and debilitating diseases, if researchers can extend a new procedure used on mice for making transplantable stem cells.
"This is just a small step along the way, but it's an important one," says stem cell researcher Paul Lerou of Children's Hospital Boston and Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital
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