Rats!

Another mammal

A gene that follows its own drum-beat

A team of Russian scientists have found in mice a gene, which, unlike others, decides when to express itself

Blindsight?

What appear to be vestigial or redundant organs need not be so, as the Spalax ehrenberghi teaches us

Rodents on rampage

The rat connection

Mouse make up

Mice are genetically similar to humans

Rattled

Book Excerpt: How the plague affected colonial Bombay in 1896

‘The Moral Contagion’ by Julia Hauser and Sarnath Banerjee describes in vivid detail how the pestilence shook up the port city

Agouti : the prolific gene

A gene that determines coat colours in mice and affects cellular calcium might hold valuable clues to understanding human ailments like obesity

The empire strikes back

Despite the progress in medical science, many old and new diseases seem to dodge us. Microbes which we bade farewell to, are raising their ugly …

The hanta phantom

Indian scientists suspect the presence of hantavirus - one of the. most dreaded killers of modern times - in Gujarat

Rats offer clue for human cancer treatment

A technique developed to fight tumours in rats may one day be used to treat humans

Bandicoots bared

THAILAND

New route for inherited diseases

Changes outside the genetic material can last generations

Unravelling the Bombay plague

Room 000: Narratives Of The Bombay Plague is the story of the plague that killed thousands in Mumbai in the late 1890s. Very little was known …

Lab manual

Book>> A Guinea Pig's History of Biology by Jim Endersby Random House 2008 Indian Price Rs 495

Rats on the rampage

Plagueing policies

Fat chance

Virus trap

Stereo smell

Rats can tell the direction an odour comes from

Mammals in wildlife trade host 75% of known zoonotic viruses

The researchers surveyed the association of 226 viruses responsible for zoonotic diseases with more than 800 mammal species 

Born in a dish

The birth of a mouse in a petri dish -the end result of the use of an effective technique to manipulate oocytes -heralds a new era in …