Mouse make up

Mice are genetically similar to humans

Rattled

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

Rats on the rampage

Plagueing policies

Fat chance

Virus trap

Stereo smell

Rats can tell the direction an odour comes from

Two cases of pneumonic plague reported in northern China

Chinese officials downplay, say both patients are being treated as rules mandate

The sleepy saw-scaled viper

Largely nocturnal, this brown snake is seen under rocks and fallen logs

Modelled on mice

Genetically engineered test mice provide the ray of light in thalassaemia research

The Bishkek bite

Rodent menace

The plague of Samar Island

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Rat menace

The flowering of the bamboo is bad news for the people in Mizoram

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Climate has its say

Land formation does not get to decide biodiversity alone  

Carcinogenic enzymes blocked in human body

Don't smell a rat

Pied piper in lab

Scientists devise genetically tweaked rats to study cancer

COVID-19: Is India equipped to carry out clinical trials on vaccines?

The country does not have the animals for such pre-clinical trials

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