Posts Tagged ‘mouse’

Naked mole rats: Can they help us cure cancer? – Slate Magazine

Tuesday, August 1st, 2017

Naked mole rats: Can they help..cure cancer?
http://www.Slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_mouse_trap/2011/11/naked_mole_rats_can_they_help_us_cure_cancer_.html Live >6x longer than C57BL/6 & have “insectile” queen-domimated society

Species-Specific | The Scientist Magazine(R)

Sunday, September 6th, 2015

Scientists uncover striking differences between mouse and human gene expression across a variety of tissues.
By Jyoti Madhusoodanan | November 17, 2014

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/41453/title/Species-Specific/

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The results “go a little against the grain,” said bioinformatician Mark Gerstein of Yale University who was not involved in the study. “We might think that humans and mice are very similar [genetically], but when we compare their transcriptomes, they’re more different than we thought.”
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