A newly identified mutation helps super-sleepers get by on just four to six hours of shut-eye per night, while the rest of us ...

Wilhelm Johannsen, the Danish botanist who coined the term "gene," showed the value of inbreeding to fix characteristics, and Little applied that idea to mice. In 1909, he produced the first inbred ...

We suggest that attributing phenotypes to genetic background effects is outmoded and that new databases containing single-nucleotide polymorphisms obtained with a group of inbred mouse strains can ...

At the University of Aarhus animal facility, we observed sporadic cases of sudden death of inbred, mutant and transgenic lactating female mice. The cases were dispersed among all murine genotypes ...

BMB-101 demonstrated a complete elimination of drop attacks in the DBA/2 mouse model - - The DBA/2 model is highly predictive ...

Reporting today (August 7) in PNAS, Ghent University researchers have published a database of proteins predicted to be nonfunctional in the 36 most popular and important inbred strains of laboratory ...