The ob gene -- ob for obesity -- was moved into mice in 1995, and the photo of the fat mouse next to the thin mouse with the ob gene was carried by nearly every media outlet in the nation. Overnight ...

There are many things that set humans apart from other animals, but few of them are as notable as our ability to communicate. Sure, most animals are able to make noises, and many of them can send ...

Scott Weigle demonstrated that leptin could bring about weight loss in mice. In the past, obesity often was considered a sign of weak willpower and a lack of self-restraint. But the discovery of the ...

Scientists have used CRISPR technology to edit out a lung-disease–causing gene while mice were in utero, rescuing the function of the lung and not affecting other organs, they reported on Wednesday ...

In yellow and/or obese mice, however, the same genes are not methylated; thus, these genes are expressed or "turned on." The turning on of this single gene results in an apparent freak of nature.

For the first time, a team of researchers has shown that they can remove HIV type 1 (HIV-1) from infected mouse cells using a powerful gene-editing tool. By removing DNA of the deadly virus in ...

Post-mortem examination of a mouse heart shows a clear delineation in blue where TREE gene enhancer sensed and responded to tissue damage of a heart attack. photo - Ken Poss Lab, Duke University ...