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How much weight you gain may depend on when you eat, according to a new study that looked at the timing of meals in mice. Scientists at Northwestern University fed two groups of mice the same amount of high fat food, but one group ate during regular waking time, while the other ate during what would normally be their sleeping period. The second group gained twice as much weight as the first group! picked by Bingo 3 months ago tags midnight snacking eating fatter |
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By blocking the action of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) in mice, Australian researchers have influenced the behaviour of fat cells, causing the rodents to lose weight while simultaneously reducing blood pressure and reducing the risk of diabetes. 6 comments edit related share scienceCake loving mice everywhere are rejoicing. picked by pocksucket 2 years ago |
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Using stem cells, scientists were able to grow completely new prostate glands in mice. The prostate is a gland that aids in creating and expelling semen, and is often the cause of cancer in older men. But now that researchers can grow prostates in mice, will doctors be regrowing human prostates any time soon? picked by suebe 1 year ago 4 comments edit related share science |
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Remember the old "Guinness Book of World Records" TV show? Here is a story that will make you cringe. It is about the largest infestation of mice. The number of mice is sickening enough, but when they talk about the kid eating the dead mice... picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
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So you want to make chocolate mice, hm? 2 comments edit related share plime.comThey're adorable! Let's get started! picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago |
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Experiments on mice have revealed a gene that is linked to early hair loss, a Japanese researcher said today, sparking hopes for a treatment to prevent thinning and baldness in humans. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago 4 comments edit related share plime.com |
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Japanese scientists have cloned mice whose bodies were frozen for as long as 16 years and say it may be possible to use the technique to resurrect mammoths and other extinct species. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 2 comments edit related share science |
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Fully functioning teeth have been grown from stem cells planted in the mouths of mice, scientists said today. 1 comments edit related share scienceThe researchers in Japan hope the breakthrough could proved not only to be an important step towards being able to replace teeth in humans but eventually replacing organs, lost or damaged as a result of disease, injury or aging. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago |
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No one knew exactly why mice sing, but rats make similar calls during sex, pleasant brain stimulation, and drug use, so psychologists thought the songs might be a sign of happiness. picked by h2so4hurts 2 years ago 2 comments edit related share science |
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Geneticists in Russia have successfully engineered mice to produce breast milk with human proteins. 1 comments edit related share plime.comThey could soon be able to make substitutes, with all the health benefits! picked by Ankabout 6 months ago |
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Scientists have for the first time regrown retina cells in live mammals. The mouse study offers hope for similar success in human eye cells. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share science |
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Why drop a ball? Of all the ways mankind could mark one turn around the sun and the beginning of the next, why do we feel compelled to drop a big honking globe from the top of a pole? 13 comments edit related share plime.com"Yeah, dropping a ball is a little random," Don Wisniewski agreed. That's why for the first time at the stroke of midnight, he and the entire city of Annapolis, Md., will drop a sailboat. picked by maven 11 months ago |
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INFRA-red footage showing a "superbreed" of giant flesh-eating house mice chewing into an albatross chick has been used as a stark warning of what awaits pest-infested Macquarie Island. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
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Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have shown that they can engineer mouse and human cells to produce brown fat, a natural energy-burning type of fat that counteracts obesity. If such a strategy can be developed for use in people, the scientists say, it could open a novel approach to treating obesity and diabetes. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago 1 comments edit related share science |
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Microscopic analysis of scratches on dinosaur teeth has helped scientists unravel an ancient riddle of what a major group of dinosaurs ate -- and exactly how they did it! 0 comments edit related share scienceNow for the first time, a study led by the University of Leicester, has found evidence that the duck-billed dinosaurs -- the Hadrosaurs -- in fact had a unique way of eating, unlike any living creature today. picked by bingo 5 months ago |
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British archaeologists have unearthed the secrets of what is thought to be the world’s first prisoner of war camp. 0 comments edit related share plime.comExperts, working with Channel 4’s Time Team programme, say the camp near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, housed 7,000 captured French soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago |
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A U.S.-led international team of scientists has reported preliminary evidence consistent with Einstein's disavowed theory of a force that opposes gravity. In 1917, Einstein proposed a cosmological constant -- a force opposing gravity -- to explain why the universe does not collapse under the force of gravity. At the time, Einstein and other scientists believed the universe was static. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 2 comments edit related share science |
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I haven't posted in a while, but this was cause for me to return. picked by jameseum 3 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
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A short stint on a vibrating platform might slow the development of fat cells in mice by nearly 20%, according to controversial new research. picked by DrNothing 2 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
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"Operation Midnight Climax was a CIA mind-control research program that began in the 1950's. The project consisted of CIA-run safehouses in San Francisco, Marin and New York. It was established in order to study the effects of LSD on unconsenting individuals. Prostitutes on the CIA payroll were instructed to lure clients back to the safehouses, where they were given a wide range of substances... read full post picked by bornbad 5 months ago 1 comments edit related share politics |
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The planet Jupiter must have gained mass fast during its infancy, according to astronomers. 0 comments edit related share scienceIt had to, because the material from which the planet formed disappeared in just a few million years. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago |