Experiments using mice have shown that the offspring with the new mitochondria carry no information that defines any human attributes.
Using mice as subjects, the team found that the more lactate was present in certain areas (lactate is a product of neuronal activity), the more amyloid-beta peptide was also present.
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Late in my life, I was hired by a lab at Cornell University as support staff doing research into the molecular components of meiosis, using transgenic mice.
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Harvard University researchers conducted experiments on mice using oligomers, a soluble form of amyloid-beta protein, which is the key compound in brain plaque and a hallmark of Alzheimer's.
In an in vivo model using severe combined immunodeficient mice, subcutaneous tumors were generated by inoculating the animals with cells from human non-small cell lung carcinoma cell lines.
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The mice hopped about like kangaroos, using both their forelimbs and hind limbs.
Judah Folkman, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, became famous for using a similar idea to cure cancer in mice, but progress in human beings was slow.
Using radiation, researchers completely destroyed the bone marrow of female mice and replaced it with marrow from male mice.
So far he has been able to keep mice with otherwise fatal ovarian tumors alive indefinitely by using progressively lower doses of carboplatin.
Using the short-range wireless connection technology would allow, for example, wireless keyboards and mice as a standard feature on all machines.
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