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Nov. 25, 2020 —Despite their reputation, rats are surprisingly sociable and regularly help each other out. Researchers have shown that a rat just has to smell another rat that is engaged in helpful behavior to ...
Mar. 9, 2022 —6500万年前恐龙灭绝,mammoths 4,000 years ago, and the Christmas Island Rat 119 years ago. Since becoming a popular concept in the 1990s, de-extinction efforts have focused on ...
May 3, 2022 —New ancient DNA analysis has shed light on how the black rat, blamed for spreading Black Death, dispersed across Europe -- revealing that the rodent colonized the continent on two occasions in the ...
Aug. 4, 2022 —Researchers generated rat sperm cells inside sterile mice using a technique called blastocyst ...
June 20, 2023 —Some animals release chemical pheromones which can trigger behavioral or hormonal changes in other animals. It is known that calm rats can reduce the fear of nearby rats, but the exact mechanism was ...
Nov. 15, 2022 —Researchers have assembled the first reference genome for the Nile rat -- a kind of genetic template of this species that may be used for laboratory and clinical studies. The hope is that it will be ...
Nov. 12, 2020 —Researchers have confirmed Germany's first-ever case of animal-to-human transmission involving a specific species of virus known as the 'Seoul virus'. Researchers were able to confirm ...
Mar. 2, 2021 —Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) can make all the tissues including gametes such as sperm and eggs. Researchers report a robust method for the generation of gametes from PSCs using the body of rats that ...
Nov. 28, 2022 —The Sox9 gene is upregulated in the absence of sex-determining Y chromosome and Sry gene in Amami spiny ...
Apr. 21, 2021 —Scientists have provided the first evidence to show that eradicating rats from tropical islands effects not just the biodiversity on the islands, but also the fragile coral seas that surround ...