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Animal experiments: gene mutations can cause eating disorders in mice

Animal experiments: gene mutations can cause eating disorders in mice

At present, researchers have discovered that a genetic mutation related to the increased risk of eating disorders in humans can also cause mice to exhibit several behavioral abnormalities that look very similar to those in patients with anorexia nerv...

2020-11-05
Scientists point out that naming laboratory animals may be a useful research tool

Scientists point out that naming laboratory animals may be a useful research tool

Freckle is a male rhesus monkey. When he arrived at his new home in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA in 2000, he was warmly welcomed by his companions....

2020-11-05
Animal experiments: Scientists successfully implanted memories in mice

Animal experiments: Scientists successfully implanted memories in mice

Transplanting memories is a common plot in science fiction movies. Now the dream of memory transplantation has finally come true for the first time. Self-conscious memory has been transplanted into the minds of sleeping mice....

2020-11-05
Animal Experiments: Improved experimental mice help Ebola research

Animal Experiments: Improved experimental mice help Ebola research

The Ebola hemorrhagic fever epidemic spread rapidly in West Africa last year, and the scientific community at that time knew very little about Ebola’s “perpetration”....

2020-11-05
Animal experiment: revealing the distribution and evolution of large brachiopods

Animal experiment: revealing the distribution and evolution of large brachiopods

The Carboniferous is the era of famous giant creatures. In addition to the well-known terrestrial creatures such as giant dragonflies and giant spiders, some huge invertebrates such as ammonites and brachiopods also lived in the ocean...

2020-11-05
Oxytocin improves social behavior in mice with autism

Oxytocin improves social behavior in mice with autism

Olga Peñagarikano and colleagues demonstrated in a mouse model of autism that oxytocin can significantly improve their social behavior, and this benefit may last for a long time if treated early...

2020-11-05
An experimental animal with broad application prospects-Tibetan chief monkey

An experimental animal with broad application prospects-Tibetan chief monkey

In 2004, approved by the Sichuan Provincial Department of Forestry, the Sichuan Provincial Department of Science and Technology established a project-the standardization of Tibetan chief monkeys. The Laboratory Animal Research Institute of Sichuan Ac...

2020-11-05
Animal Modeling: Is it reliable to act as a \\\"stand-in\\\" for cancer patients?

Animal Modeling: Is it reliable to act as a "stand-in" for cancer patients?

Scientists often use mice to test drugs. Now, some cancer patients also pin their hopes of curing themselves on laboratory mice....

2020-11-05
Animal experiments: the evolution of vertebrate vision

Animal experiments: the evolution of vertebrate vision

The journal Nature Communications reported online the first discovery of fossil rods and cones (receptors in the visual system). The discovery of these things in a fish named Aanthodes bridgei that has been 300 million years ago shows that these visu...

2020-11-05
Understanding the pathophysiology of depression: the benefits of animal models

Understanding the pathophysiology of depression: the benefits of animal models

Ideally, an effective animal model should meet at least three criteria and have appearance, structure, and predictive validity. Later, an additional criterion was added, that is, the similarity in etiology, that is, effective models should have simil...

2020-11-05
Changes in plasma and tissue levels of sex hormones in female nude mice with green fluorescence in different periods

Changes in plasma and tissue levels of sex hormones in female nude mice with green fluorescence in different periods

Solve the changes in plasma levels of estrogen, progesterone, prolactin and prolactin and prolactin receptor mRNA in various tissues of male nude mice during pregnancy and lactation. Green Fluorescence Protein (GFP)...

2020-11-05
Research reveals the distribution characteristics of terpenoids in surface soils in different ecological regions of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Research reveals the distribution characteristics of terpenoids in surface soils in different ecological regions of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

The characteristic biomarkers terpenoids have the potential to indicate the diversity of ecosystems and vegetation. In order to understand and apply terpenoid biomarkers, it is necessary to clarify the distribution characteristics and corresponding r...

2020-11-04
Reversing the \"loser effect\" mechanism research has made progress

Reversing the "loser effect" mechanism research has made progress

Past social experiences can affect the mental state of humans and the functional state of animals’ brains, causing individuals to make completely opposite behavioral choices in the same scene or facing the same stimuli...

2020-11-04
Reconstruction of natural and human face images through structured neural information decoding technology

Reconstruction of natural and human face images through structured neural information decoding technology

Recently, researchers from the Neurocomputing and Brain-Computer Interaction Team of the Brain-Inspired Intelligence Research Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, proposed a structured neural decoding model to achieve high-qu...

2020-11-04
Exosomal biomimetic nanoparticles can effectively kill cancer stem cells, which is expected to solve the problem of cancer recurrence

Exosomal biomimetic nanoparticles can effectively kill cancer stem cells, which is expected to solve the problem of cancer recurrence

Cancer stem cells (CSCs) play an important role in tumor survival, proliferation, metastasis and recurrence. Essentially, cancer stem cells maintain the vitality of tumor cell populations through self-renewal and immortal proliferation...

2020-11-04
Revealing the uplift process of the Himalayas through the evolutionary history of living amphibians and reptiles

Revealing the uplift process of the Himalayas through the evolutionary history of living amphibians and reptiles

Based on long-term investigations and studies on the Himalayas, Che Jing’s team, a researcher from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, reconstructed the temporal and spatial evolutionary history of most of the existing amph...

2020-11-04