rodents

Among the rodents is an ex-professor from Bishop's University, one Edwina Taborsky, who blogs under the entirely suitable initials "ET."

Archive 2009-06-01 2009

We know that many carcinogens in rodents do not translate to people and vice versa.

Good riddance to Breast Cancer Awareness Month! 2009

Retrovirus causing leukaemia in rodents often also causes a wasting syndrome, which could be the result of secondary immune depression.

Luc Montagnier - Autobiography 2009

Bisphenol A research in rodents also has found evidence that exposure can cause a variety of problems: earlier sexual maturation in females exposed before birth, breast cancer, lowered sperm production, possible links to prostate cancer and increased insulin resistance, a precursor to diabetes.

'Everywhere chemicals' in plastics alarm parents 2007

In the 1930's a group of American geneticists, long concerned with the incidence of "spontaneous" tumors in rodents, undertook to determine how a pronounced liability of female mice of certain strains to develop mammary carcinomas as they grow old is inherited; and by breeding tests they came upon the astounding fact that this liability reaches the young from their mothers.

Peyton Rous - Nobel Lecture 1972

They are considered a great delicacy by the natives, who try to get ahead of certain rodents and a blue jay, known as the piñon jay, in collecting the nuts.

Taytay's Tales 1922

The chief enemy of these little rodents is the wolf.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

Denmark restricted it too, reacting to a study published earlier this year that linked BPA to neurobiological problems in rodents.

Jon Entine: With the European Union and a Slew of New Studies Reaffirming the Safety of BPA, At What Point Will the Science Prevail? Jon Entine 2010

Humans have far more developed brains, so searching for these cells has been harder than it was in rodents.

Study: Human Brain can Make New Cells | Impact Lab 2007

Of late many gifted investigators have sought new neogiastic viruses, with the aid of technics recently devised, and not a few of these agents have been disclosed in rodents.

Peyton Rous - Nobel Lecture 1972