Some mice that received the treatment lived almost twice as long as they would have otherwise.
In fact, South Africa could do with some mice, so long as they roar.
Another experiment saw some mice implanted with tumour cells which were genetically modified to experience boosted lymphatic growth.
Dr Steven Goldman told the BBC that "myelin was produced throughout the nervous system" and some mice had achieved "normal life spans".
Some of the mice were put on a swimming regimen, while others did not exercise.
There are some men and mice who cannot help the way they are.
Instead, some of the mice developed a tumor known as bile duct cancer.
To make sure that the new neurons were actually correlating with the weight gain, the researchers killed the neurons in some of the mice with focused X-rays.
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Even though some of their mice survived the storm, Barcellos-Hoff says they could never account for the effect that the week and a half the animals spent in the dark might have had on the results.
Some of the research in mice indicates that the master clock typically adjusts to a new time zone after around three days.
Scientists found that after injecting genes into the livers of mice, in some cases, the new genes became incorporated into the cells chromosomes.
No one knows exactly why a low-calorie diet extends the life of mice, but some researchers think it is linked to the rate at which cells divide.
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You do this by crossbreeding mice that have had some of their cells treated this way when they were embryos, and have thus developed sex cells that lack the knocked-out gene.
Melatonin, a hormone used to prevent insomnia, became a craze a few years ago, when, on the basis of studies with mice and rats, some researchers hailed it as a miracle cure for aging.
"If you think of the genetic diversity and the wide variety of cancer that were found, the simplest way I can imagine to extend the lives of the mice is to retard at least some important aspects of aging, " he says.
Most of the changes to Honeycomb are happening under the hood -- better HTML5 support, faster performance, and USB host functionality for connecting peripherals like game controllers and mice -- but there are some improvements that will be a lot more obvious to the user.
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Since then, attempts have been made at cloning other animals including mice, dogs, monkeys, pigs and even some endangered species.
He then infected mice with lethal levels of S. aureus and injected some of them with doses of his selected rings.
Bins are currently collected fortnightly with some residents claiming some areas are like a "slum" with rubbish attracting rats and mice.
Some agencies in the U.S. intelligence community, perhaps not realizing that MICE is already a plural word, insist on adding an S to the end for sex.
Fortunately, Fishell, like many other researchers, shared some of his strains with other research institutions that are willing to provide him with mice for breeding, making the task slightly less daunting.
And when Dr Anderson injected the modified vesicles into mice and then shone ultraviolet light of a wavelength that can pass through flesh at some of them, he found the tactic worked.
The study compared mice fed a high-fat diet with those fed a normal, healthy diet, and exposed some members of both groups daily to fine particulate matter, controlling for all other factors.
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