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Which Sex of Mouse Should You Ask for Directions?

Hormonal: It’s shorthand for erratic, volatile, unpredictable female behavior. It’s such a powerful sex stereotype that even lab rats could not escape its reach. For decades, behavioral neuroscience excluded female mice because they assumed estrus cycles made them too inconsistent to study. But the scientists had no evidence to back this up—and over the past
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Synthetic mouse embryos with rudimentary brain grown in the lab

Embryo-like structures grown in an incubator instead of a uterus could lead to better treatments for infertility and a range of other medical conditions Health 25 August 2022 By Clare Wilson Synthetic (left) and natural (right) mouse embryos show comparable brain and heart formationAmadei and Handford Synthetic embryos made from mouse stem cells have been
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The House of Mouse Could Be Headed for the Metaverse

Photo: Roberto Machado Noa (Getty Images)The metaverse may be headed to a Disney theme park near you.Disney received approval for a “virtual-world simulator” patent shortly before the new year, according to a recently surfaced filing with the U.S. Patent Office. The technology would be used to project 3-D images on real-world objects to create interactive…
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