I and many other people aren't having children to be pharmaceutical guinea pigs. And to be honest all this hacking the immune system with vaccines
Don't worry though I won't be sending my un vaccinated feral children to your state ran institutionalized learning facilities to possibly contaminate your pharmaceutical guinea pig state owned children.
#Taste Receptors Found In Mouse Testicles. Tasticles? Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center made a startling discovery while investigating the sense of taste in mice:
not only do mice have taste receptors on their testicles but any attempt to remove these taste receptors results in infertility.
We're not sure which is weirder. The taste buds on the tongue include lots of taste receptors little bits of protein that bond with other chemicals to detect and signal flavor.
And mice it seems have them in their testicles. The taste receptors have the ability to distinguish broad categories of flavor--sweet sour salty umami bitter.
and deliver information to the brain the mice became completely sterile. Sperm count plummeted spermatozoa failed to develop properly
and the mice completely lost their ability to procreate. Why does this happen? Well the researchers have no idea.
It might just lead to research about mouse testicles. Which is fine too. PNAS via Business Insider It does kind of explain why mouse traps get the mouse in the leaving position.
We thought the mouse was escaping but in fact he was tasting lol. If a mouse is caught wearing a g-string it not really a g-string
but in fact he is flossing lol . i wonder could they be like ph detectors or somthing similar that let the body monitor the environment in the mice's balls?
and when the researchers removed them the body could not detect anything amiss so didn't correct imbalances that killed off the sperm?
It could be as simple as tasting as they run learning where a snack might be for later.
Eating Yogurt Turns Mice into Giant-Balled Seduction Machines...Then the researchers spotted some thing particular about the males:
which endowed them with a certain mouse swagger Erdman says. On measuring the males they found that the testicles of the yogurt consumers were about 5 percent heavier than those of mice fed typical diets alone and around 15 percent heavier than those of junk-eating males...
http://jezebel. com/5908274/eating-yogurt-turns-mice-into-giant+balled-seduction-machines...Oh my god.
Can't we women just have one thing to ourselves without a pair of giant testicles swooping in
and obesity fed a group of 80 mice either a junk food diet or a standard diet supplementing half of each group with yogurt.
As expected the junk-food mice wound up fatter and slower than the standard-diet mice and the mice that ate the standard diet plus yogurt were the slimmest of all.
the scientists noticed that the yogurt-eating mice were incredibly shiny. Sparkle you special little mouse!
Sparkle! But what the researchers didn't anticipate was this: Those mices'balls got HUGE:
Then the researchers spotted some thing particular about the males: they projected their testes outward
which endowed them with a certain mouse swagger Erdman says. On measuring the males they found that the testicles of the yogurt consumers were about 5 percent heavier than those of mice fed typical diets alone and around 15 percent heavier than those of junk-eating males.
Oh my god mouse swagger. Great. So now yogurt OUR YOGURT is some sort of magic machismo superfood for men.
I will be helpless before the swagger of these sparkling man-mouses! But to be fair the magic yogurt does have some effect on woman-mice too:
Conversely females that ate the yogurt diets gave birth to larger litters and weaned those pups with greater success. So once
I get seduced by the Mystery Mouse I'll be able to successfully whelp hella babies wearing tiny fur top-hats and steampunk novelty goggles.
In other words could mouse and possibly a human male contraceptive be as simple a cutting a nerve
Last week researchers at Case Western University and the Cleveland Clinic managed to restore significant control in rats with spinal cords cut as they would be in a head transplant (though this study didn't actually involve head transplants.
The spinal cord is reconnected by creating a sort of scaffolding made of nerve fibers from the rat's rib cage
After six months the rats regained bladder control though they never regained the ability to walk.
Then one mouse could conceive a larger mousses embryo and so on until it s large enough to be engineered to give birth to a pig.
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Instead the aim is to induce one species to grow an organ of the other not a combination of two species. He's done this with mice and rats;
back in 2010 he successfully induced a mouse embryo to grow a rat pancreas by using rat stem cells.
and found that in mice these cells produce chemicals that regrew bone and flesh. So what if in the absence of natural Wnts you used genetic engineering to force tissue to produce these proteins?
When they forced the production of Wnts in mice the team managed to regrow bone
This has huge implications for the treatment of amputations--the experiment was performed only on mice
a nearly complete 55-million-year-old skeleton of a mouse-size creature known as Carpolestes simpsoni.
and California the Hibiscadelphus Woodii a flowering tree in Hawaii and the Dusky Gopher Frog located in Harrison County Mississippi.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. Is that better?@@Raynre You're welcome to some of our spring here on the Canadian prairies.
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and expert on mammalian evolution at the American Museum of Natural history to find out why the US is stuck with lame squirrels and pigeons and stuff rather than cool monkeys.
which most of the world's creatures (aside from a precious few like the Virginia opossum and the dormouse) were unable to adapt to the new climate
Small's study comes after a few years of research into mice rats and fruit flies have found that the animals are able to sense nutrition independently of taste.
People are still working out the exact mechanisms in mice much less people. Still Small thinks it makes evolutionary sense.
Our bodies therefore reflect a continuously jury-rigged system with echoes of fish of fruit fly of lizard and mouse.
Its not like squirrels are hoarders or foxes or ravens...or many other animals that demonstrate distinctly Human qualities.
Some species such as beavers we know for a fact have not changed for millions of years.
#NYC Wants To Sterilize Its Subway Ratsthe rats of NYC subways are resilient. The city is an especially well-suited home for the critters
but there are a lot of rats down there and this could potentially slow the population in a more humane way.
When a female rat ingests some it'll target the ovarian follicles permanently sterilizing it.
Along with those more traditional techniques Metro Transit Authority officials are hoping this puts a dent in the rodent population.
Still it sounds like it takes a lot of the compound developed by a company called Senestech to effectively sterilize the rats:
First off to become sterilized the rats are going to have to eat this rodenticide. The main issue the mta is currently having with rats is that the general public is so filthy
and throws food and drinks on the tracks. Also the current situation of sanitation on the platform is still very poor.
The rodents will always eat people's hot dog buns and chips and pretzels before they eat a waxy rodenticide.
The second problem is this will just work on the female rats. I think the city needs to look deeper into other preventive ways of avoiding a rise in the rat population in NYC.
I am skeptical but curious about this new idea. I would like to see the long term outcome.@
It can make a rat sterile and we use rats to test out drugs we are starting to develop for human use...
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If you sterilize the female rats the males ones can't get them pregnant. That's how sexual reproduction works.
If there is a lot of food around any method that only kills most of the rats will have no effect at all.
And if there are no rats what happens to the food? Mice eat it? Insects s
#How To Build A 2, 073-Foot Skyscraperwhen it opens in 2014 the Shanghai Tower won't just be the world's second-tallest building.
and the mouse to map out individual neuron interactions. However the longer term vision encompassed by the proposal is both fanciful and actually quite frightening.
Class 1 is mostly squirrels. Class 2 includes foxes beavers skunks raccoons coyotes and weasels.
Class 3 includes venomous reptiles and all species of bear big cat and wolf. All three classes are legal!
or night after extended periods of howling having them chased over rodent holes and across freezing rivers moms being separated from their calves
Are you another one of those lemmings packed into shiny metal boxes? Do you think that all those climate scientists are
I must be one of these lemmings packed into a box as you mentioned because
Plague-carrying rats and other vermin were destroyed. Disinfectants were used freely and fumigation resorted to when necessary in handling contagious diseases.
#Eating Poo Helps Packrats Digest Toxic Plantsdesert woodrats are picky but not in the way you might expect:
several woodrat populations in the U s. Southwest specifically eat a type of highly toxic creosote bush.
This gives the woodrats (Neotoma lepida) a nice niche allowing them to dine on a plant that others avoid.
In one test they found that packrats (as the animals are known also) fed creosote had much higher levels of bacteria thought to be involved in breaking down the plant's secondary chemicals
Packrats regularly feed on other animals'droppings in the wild and with that in mind the scientists fed a group of juniper-eating packrats a mixture of rabbit food and feces from creosote-eaters.
These animals apparently developed the ability to break down the plant compared to those just fed rabbit food who couldn't subsequently eat the toxic plant.
All this work with toxic plants poo and packrats has wider implications than you might imagine however.
or perhaps even use bacteria found in the droppings of other animals (here's looking at you packrats).
and less depressing news a new species of ground squirrel was discovered recently in Borneo which breaks a record for tail size
As consumers we are guinea pigs because we really don't understand the ramifications. But the truth is GMOS have been studied intensively
One frequently cited study published in 2012 by researchers from the University of Caen in France claimed that one of Monsanto's corn GMOS caused tumors in lab rats.
So instead of giving pigs mouse genes scientists could make domestic pigs with genes normally found in wild pigs.
I don't think those who don't wish to eat GM foods will find GM pigs-with-pig-genes any better than pigs with mouse genes.
and capybara (the world's largest rodent) taking up stations on the banks. Along the way you enter the Tambopata National Reserve
and a head lamp--275 lumens strong enough to spot an Amazon bamboo rat from a football field away easy--who's just returned from a walk to find spiders.
in order to study how viruses jump between species. Last year neuroscientists at Stanford university boosted the intelligence of mice with human brain cells.
He tested these bread strains on guinea pigs and found that they didn't cause gangrene.
They could try to cultivate insects guinea pigs or other small animals but caring for these would add to their already enormous workload.
the beavers. Elk populations were really high while the wolves were gone says Marris. That was caused by the absence of wolves but also presumably by human management decisions climate and other factors.
Elks and beavers competed for the same food: willow. The elks won beaver numbers dropped
and so did the extent of marshy habitat. Without beaver dams creating willow-friendly environments Marris says the willows can't recover.
In reporting her article Marris learned that beyond the pages of scientific journals the gaps between researchers who do
Squirrel blood and crushed head lice(!!have it. It is distinct from pã Âh which is the smell that blood raw fish
and a team of surgeons and engineers to develop a glue that they recently tested in hearts of living rats and pigs.
The tests Karp and del Nido performed included closing heart defects in laboratory rats and closing cuts in the arteries of pigs.
and colleagues infected mouse immune cells known as macrophages with each of the 29 strains they had collected representing global diversity.
She notes that a strain adapted to long-term survival in rats may cause a fatal infection in mice
although wood lemmings have survived on a pure moss diet in a laboratory Varner and Dearing write.
Brown lemmings can consume up to 40 percent moss during Arctic winters. And Soay sheep can eat up to 30 percent moss in winter.
#Rainforest rodents risk their lives to eathungry rodents that wake up early are much more likely to be eaten than rodents getting plenty of food and shut-eye according to new results from a study at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
Scientists equipped agoutis common rainforest rodents and ocelots their feline predators with radio collars and tracked them 24/7 via an automated telemetry system on Barro Colorado Island.
Agoutis were most active in the daytime. Ocelots were most active at night. Agoutis eat tree seeds.
Ocelots eat agoutis said Patrick Jansen research associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and assistant professor at Wageningen University.
Where food is hard to find agoutis spend more time foraging and are more likely to be eaten by an ocelot.
To determine when it was dangerous for agoutis to be active scientists first recorded daily activity patterns of agoutis as well as ocelots.
Camera traps placed across the island photographed all animals that passed in front of the lens and recorded the time.
During the day thousands of agoutis were active but few ocelots prowled the island. Around sunset as agoutis sought the shelter of their burrows the ratio of ocelots to agoutis jumped
and then droped again around sunrise. Radio signals produced by an animal's transmitter collar were picked simultaneously up by radio towers around the island.
When agoutis died researchers quickly arrived on the scene to determine the cause of death.
Seventeen of 19 dead agoutis found in the study were killed by ocelots. Most kills happened just before sunrise and just after sunset
when relatively few agoutis are active. Scientists compared daily activity patterns of agoutis between parts of forest with contrasting abundance of palm seeds.
First they determined at what times agoutis entered and exited their burrows based on changes in radio signals.
Second they placed camera traps at the entrances and recorded the time an agouti entered
and exited. Both methods showed that agoutis in areas with less food left their burrows earlier
and entered their burrows later than agoutis in food-rich areas. Hungry agoutis were much more active at twilight
and were more likely to get killed by an ocelot. We knew that hungry animals tend to take more risks said Jansen.
But this is the first study to so thoroughly document the behavior of both predator and prey.
Next Jansen will examine what the differences in predation risk mean for seed dispersal by agoutis which bury seeds as food reserves in numerous scattered caches.
Once an ocelot kills an agouti the agouti can no longer eat its food reserves Jansen said.
Hungry agoutis plant trees but may never see the fruit of their labor--a fascinating feedback loop.
300 years agofive-thousand years before it was immortalized in a British nursery rhyme the cat that caught the rat that ate the malt was doing just fine living alongside farmers in the ancient Chinese village of Quanhucun a forthcoming study
& Sciences at Washington University in St louis. Our data suggest that cats were attracted to ancient farming villages by small animals such as rodents that were living on the grain that the farmers grew ate
. While it often has been argued that cats were attracted to rodents and other food in early farming villages and domesticated themselves there has been little evidence for this theory.
Carbon isotopes indicate that rodents domestic dogs and pigs from the ancient village were eating millet
Carbon and nitrogen isotopes show that cats were preying on animals that lived on farmed millet probably rodents.
At the same time an ancient rodent burrow into a storage pit and the rodent-proof design of grain storage pots indicate that farmers had problems with rodents in the grain stores.
Other clues gleaned from the Quanhucun food web suggest the relationship between cats and humans had begun to grow closer.
and neck cancer cell growth in the mouse model reducing the growth of the tumor. In a controlled lab setting Ray found that bitter melon extract regulated several pathways that helped reduce the head and neck cancer cell growth in the animal model.
The team also found they could reduce the negative effects of these lipids in mice by feeding the animals a new genetically engineered tomato being developed at UCLA that is designed to mimic HDL (good) cholesterol.
Scientists found that mice fed a high-fat high-cholesterol diet (21 percent fat) showed a twofold increase in the amount of LPAS in the small intestine over mice fed normal low-fat
mouse chow (4 percent fat. When researchers added LPAS at only one part per million (by weight) to the normal low-fat low-cholesterol mouse chow they observed the same increase in LPAS in the small intestine as
when the mice were fed the high-cholesterol high-fat diet. Surprisingly with the addition of LPAS to the low-fat diet the UCLA team also found alterations in the patterns of gene expression in the small intestine changes in cholesterol levels (increases in LDL
and decreases in HDL) and increases in blood markers of inflammation typically seen when the mice consumed a high-fat high-cholesterol diet.
The findings suggest that some of the factors leading to atherosclerosis occur in the small intestine and not just the liver.
Researchers added 2. 2 percent (by weight) of freeze-dried tomato powder from the peptide-enhanced tomatoes to low-fat low-cholesterol mouse chow that was supplemented with LPAS.
Also preliminary testing in rats showed that the tearless onion could help control weight gain--more so than regular onions or garlic.
We have documented previously the cardiovascular benefits of a polyphenol-rich wild blueberry in a rat model with impaired vascular health
and improve the balance between relaxing and constricting factors in the vascular wall improving blood flow and blood pressure regulation of obese Zucker rats with metabolic syndrome.
It has a broad duck-like bill thick otter-like fur and webbed beaver-like feet.
because Bigoon the Water-rat would have wicked his way with her. Scoffing she disobeyed her parents
and egg-laying habit of a duck along with the fur and front feet of a rodent--the first Platypus.
In a paper to be published online Oct 24 in Immunity the researchers show that mice injected with a small dose of bee venom were later resistant to a potentially lethal dose of the same venom.
To find out whether adaptive immune responses could help mice resist bee venom Marichal and Starkl first injected mice with a low dose of venom equivalent to one or two stings.
The mice developed more venom-specific immune cells and higher levels of Ige antibodies against the venom than control mice injected with a salt solution.
Three weeks later they injected both groups of mice with a potentially lethal dose of venom similar to five bee stings.
The immunized mice had less hypothermia and were three times more likely to survive than the control mice.
Moreover they did not develop the anaphylactic reactions characteristic of severe allergies. To determine whether Ige antibodies were required for this protection the team tested mice with three types of mutations:
mice without Ige mice without functional Ige receptors on their mast cells and mice without mast cells.
The Ige-deficient mutant mice were developed previously by Hans Oettgen MD Phd associate professor of pediatric immunology at Harvard Medical school
and a co-author of the study. In all three groups of mutant mice pre-immunization with a low dose of bee venom did not confer protection against a lethal dose suggesting that the protection depends on Ige signaling and mast cell activation.
That was pretty exciting for us said Marichal. It was the first time we could see a beneficial function for these Ige antibodies.
Pre-immunization with a low dose of venom from the Russell's viper also protected mice from a higher dose of venom from this snake which is one of the big four species responsible for most snakebite
deaths in India. So the researchers believe the response could be generalized to different types of toxic venoms.
Our findings support the hypothesis that this kind of venom-specific Ige-associated adaptive immune response developed at least in evolutionary terms to protect the host against potentially toxic amounts of venom such as would happen
A mouse for example can mate with more than one male and have a litter with two or more fathers.
And in East Africa scientists found that a decline in wildebeest populations in the Serengeti-Mara grassland-savanna system decades ago allowed organic matter to accumulate
#Compound derived from vegetables shields rodents from lethal radiation dosesgeorgetown University Medical center researchers say a compound derived from cruciferous vegetable such as cabbage cauliflower and broccoli protected rats and mice from lethal doses of radiation.
For the study the researchers irradiated rats with lethal doses of gamma ray radiation. The animals were treated then with a daily injection of DIM for two weeks starting 10 minutes after the radiation exposure.
All of the untreated rats died but well over half of the DIM-treated animals remained alive 30 days after the radiation exposure.
We also showed that DIM protects the survival of lethally irradiated mice Rosen says. In addition irradiated mice treated with DIM had less reduction in red blood cells white blood cells
and platelets--side effects often seen in patients undergoing radiation treatment for cancer. Rosen says this study points to two potential uses of the compound.
#Scientists find soaring variety of malaria parasites in batsresearchers have discovered a surprising diversity of malaria parasites in West african bats as well as new evidence of evolutionary jumps to rodent hosts.
and the Museum fuì r Naturkunde Berlin the new study reveals that two bat-infecting parasites are closely related to parasites in rodents that are used commonly to model human malaria in laboratory studies.
Experimental research on drugs immunology and the development of malaria is done typically on related Plasmodium species that infect rodents including laboratory-reared mice.
and Plasmodium cyclopsi show patterns of evolutionary jumps from the rodent lineage into bats and then likely a reverse jump with a bat parasite reinfecting rodent hosts.
which roost in trees may have been exposed to the same mosquito vectors that transfer the parasites between the tree-dwelling rodent hosts.
and/or an antidepressant would help reduce them in men as it does in many women said Mara Vitolins Dr. P. H. professor of public health sciences at Wake Forest Baptist
Whether niacin has similar effects on the life expectancy of mice is the subject of Ristow's current research.
and they also had to deal with a devastating invader--the Malayan field rat. In just a few years the invading rat grew so abundant on the islands that it virtually displaced all native small mammals.
The field rat normally favors villages and agricultural lands but will also invade disturbed forests.
This tells us that the double whammy of habitat fragmentation and invading species can be fatal for native wildlife said Lynam.
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