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Platypus may be the strangest animal in the world. It is said that when European scholars first saw this duck-billed, beaver-tailed, and otter-footed animal, they thought it was a well-designed hoax....
2020-11-05Like many newborn mammals, young mice will use crying to attract mother mice\'s attention. However, a mother mouse is not born to recognize such shouts. She must learn to recognize the voices of offspring—just as a parent learns to recognize the cry ...
2020-11-05At 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...
2020-11-05Freckle 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....
2020-11-05Transplanting 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....
2020-11-05The 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”....
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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...
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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...
2020-11-05In 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...
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Scientists often use mice to test drugs. Now, some cancer patients also pin their hopes of curing themselves on laboratory mice....
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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...
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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...
2020-11-05Solve 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)...
2020-11-05The 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...
2020-11-04Past 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...
2020-11-04Recently, 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...
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