Changing one gene can restore some tissue regeneration to mice Signaling from retinoic acid appears to be key to getting mice to regrow ear damage.

Research led by the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing has discovered that switching on a single dormant gene enables mice to regenerate ear tissue.

Zebrafish hair cells regrow via cyclin gene activity in specific cells, offering clues to future hearing restoration in ...

The authors proposed two hypotheses: first, that methamphetamine induces neuroinflammation, and second, that it alters neuronal stem cell differentiation. These are valuable hypotheses, and the ...

They have enjoyed some success: mice with two mothers and no fathers were reported in 2004. But creating animals with two fathers and no mother has proved much harder.

Images produced during the research show the effect of the team’s knockout of the protein Gat3. The left image of an experimental control shows the mouse cortex when the protein was not knocked out, ...