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These shifts can create crowded nesting areas or lead to unsuitable breeding conditions, adding more stress to seabird populations. “These mice, for the first time last year, were found to be feeding ...

South Africa's Mouse-Free Marion Project aims to strike mice in winter 2027, when they are most famished and when the summer-breeding birds are not there The country of South Africa is planning to ...

New research reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has shown that in a mouse model, deleting ASTN2 expression can cause autism symptoms in mice; these mice are not ...

Mice (breeding trios comprised of CD1 females (6 weeks) and C57BL6 males (8 weeks), and SCID females (9–10 weeks) were housed in ventilated cages with a 12-h light/12-h dark cycle and fed with food ...

The Mouse-Free Marion Project has reported that out of the 29 seabird species breeding on the island, 19 are at risk of local extinction due to mouse attacks. Anderson explained that these birds ...

Summary: Blocking the kynurenine pathway, a regulator of brain metabolism, can restore cognitive function in lab mice with Alzheimer’s disease. The pathway is overactivated in Alzheimer’s, disrupting ...

Of the 29 species of seabirds that breed on the island, 19 are threatened with local extinction, the Mouse-Free Marion Project said. Mouse attacks have escalated in recent years but the birds do ...