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New mouse mutant contains clue to progressive hearing loss

Biology /

created Oct 31, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers have defined a mutation in the mouse genome that mimics progressive hearing loss in humans. A team from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, working with colleagues in Munich and Padua, found ...


Neurons in zebrafish may reveal clues to the wiring of the human ear

Neurons in zebrafish may reveal clues to the wiring of the human ear

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 23, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Developing neurons tend to play the field, making more connections than they will ever need. Then, the weakest are cut. But Rockefeller University scientists now show that neurons in young ...



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