House mice invade you home and eat your food, making it dirty and unpleasant to live in. However, do you know how to spot mice and how to get rid of them? There are various signs of mice to look out for. The first and most obvious sign is droppings. Mice should leave around 50 […]
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A brain implant turns “loser” mice into aggressive fighters
Enlarge / Could this be the first step toward the Mouse Guard from David Petersen’s amazing comic book? (credit: From Mouse Guard, by David Petersen) It sounds like something out of a science fiction movie about making supersoldiers. Scientists have turned shy, low-ranking mice into aggressive fighters who almost always win in dominance competitions. And […]
How to get rid of mice in the house WITHOUT using traps or poisons
The house mouse ranges between 60-90mm – the tail an additional 100mm – weighs less than 25g, and is light brown and grey in colour. Their presence is usually detected from their dark-coloured droppings and damage to stored foods in the larder, packaging or woodwork. Mouse nests are often built inside houses, often in places […]
Alienware has new mice, keyboards, and monitors, plus a Threadripper Area 51
Enlarge / Alienware Area 51. (credit: Dell) At E3 this year, Dell announced updates and changes to the Alienware line. The massive Alienware Area 51 gaming desktop is getting a refresh to include AMD’s new Threadripper CPUs, and Alienware is getting its own gaming mice, mechanical keyboards, and monitors. Until now, the Alienware family consisted of […]
Logitech gives gamers a reason to like wireless mice
Ask dedicated gamers why they prefer wired mice over wireless and you’ll hear two familiar refrains: even a little wireless lag can be unacceptably high, and it’s no fun to plug in or swap batteries mid-match. Logitech may have found a way to kill both birds with one stone. It’s introducing a pair of technologies, […]
Non-mutant mice sired from space sperm boost hope of cosmic human conception
Enlarge (credit: Georges Méliès) To ensure the long-term survival of humankind, we might as well shoot for the Moon. In 2013, Japanese researchers did just that by launching freeze-dried mouse sperm into space. The goal was to see if mammalian swimmers can maintain their spunk amid harsh cosmic radiation—which they’ll undoubtedly have to endure for […]
Space-preserved sperm: It’s a thing, scientists say, after successful experiment with mice
The freeze-dried sperm samples were launched in 2013 to the International Space Station and returned to Earth in 2014. CBC | Health News
In mice, marijuana’s active ingredient reverses mental decline of age
Enlarge / Maybe that’s how Willie Nelson keeps performing at 84. (credit: Hulton Archive / Getty Images) While medical marijuana has been promoted as a treatment for a variety of ailments, finding anyone who promotes it as a memory boost is rare. Yet a German-Israeli team of researchers has just published a paper suggesting that […]
Scientists use gene editing to eliminate HIV DNA in live mice
A team of scientists have snipped away HIV DNA from the genome of live mice using a CRISPR system, and the rodents lived to (kinda) tell the tale. It’s still much too early to call the method a possible cure, but the fact that it worked on a living animal opens up a lot of […]
HIV eliminated from ‘humanized’ mice in groundbreaking study
Published time: 2 May, 2017 19:46 Scientists in the US have successfully eliminated HIV from mice transplanted with infected human immune cells, in the first study to successfully achieve this in an infected animal. The new study from Temple University and the University of Pittsburgh builds on a previous study from the same team in […]
