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11.22.09

Mutant Mice Are Bred to Order

Some are fat, others tiny. And one is just having a bad hair day

By Brooke Borel Posted 08.07.2009 at 8:01 am 0 Comments

Head Tilt Mouse

Ever since Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans, and Oliver Smithies created the first knockout mouse in 1989, genetically engineered animals have steadily increased in popularity for all kinds of biology research: simply pick a gene, turn it off in the mouse, and see what happens.

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Searching For Dark Matter In the World's Deepest Underground Lab

Will scientists find dark matter 4,850 feet below the surface of the earth? If not, maybe at 8,000 feet

By John Brandon Posted 06.23.2009 at 3:56 pm 7 Comments

Scientists at Case Western Reserve University, Brown University, and several other collaborators are building an underground science lab where, in a 300-kilogram tank filled with liquid xenon, they hope to find dark matter -- the material that scientists believe was instrumental in helping to form the universe.

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