They used light-sensitive molecules to turn on and off nerve cells in the deep brain structure of mice.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

The researchers found that PQQ is important in the reproductive and defense systems of mice.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

He says the suicide molecule halted and even reduced rheumatoid arthritis in seventy-five percent of the mice in the study.

VOA: special.2010.05.19

Most of these are shared among humans as well as mice, rats and other mammals used for comparison in the study.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

They said a new,non-steroidal treatment made from a human protein has proven successful in greatly decreasing the signs of asthma in mice.

VOA: special.2010.09.07

The exact cause is unknown. But in a recent study, an experimental drug showed signs of halting the disorder in laboratory mice.

VOA: special.2010.05.19

To produce these animals, researchers inject fertilized mice eggs with foreign genes, and then place them in the uterus of a female mouse.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

And they gave the mice heart attacks to study the deployment of monocytes from the spleen.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

But mice are not as helpful as primates are for studying the behavior of human diseases.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

Scientist Ian Wilson at the Scripps Research Institute in California says the antibodies proved highly effective in laboratory mice exposed to deadly levels of virus.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

MLVs are a kind of retrovirus known to cause cancer in mice.

VOA: special.2011.01.18

Transgenic mice help researchers study the appearance and treatment of human diseases.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

Some mice were put in standard laboratory cages, in groups of five or so, with plenty of food and water.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

"We took isolated skin biopsies from laboratory mice, exposed those isolated skin biopsies to temperatures of 43 degrees or 48 degrees, and then we looked at what was being released from the skin under those conditions."

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

New research has found that mice with cancer are better able to fight off the disease when they are in complex, stimulating environments, with lots of toys and other mice that they interact - and compete - with.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14