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Millions of rats in New York could carry COVID, study finds | Science & Tech News
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Millions of rats living across New York City are susceptible to COVID-19, researchers have found. Like humans, the rodents have proved vulnerable to multiple variants of the virus, from the original to Omicron, including high levels of infection in their upper and lower airways. A World Health Organization (WHO) report in 2021 concluded that the…
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Rats have rhythm and love to dance to Lady Gaga, researchers discover | Science & Tech News
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Rats have rhythm and will happily bop along to Queen and Lady Gaga, scientists have found. The discerning rodents also liked a bit of Mozart, the Japanese study found. The skill of moving to a musical beat was thought to be mostly one associated with humans, scientists have discovered. Researchers at the University of Tokyo…
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Human brain tissue implanted into rats integrated and grew with host’s brain | UK News
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A research team in the US has shown that human brain tissue implanted into rats can integrate into its host’s brain, promising to give scientists an entirely new way to study brain disorders – but raising ethical questions too. Professor Sergiu Pasca and colleagues at Stanford University in California took sesame seed-sized clumps of human…
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Lab rats given human brain transplants could shed new light on diseases, say researchers | UK News
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A research team in the US has shown that human brain tissue implanted into rats can integrate into its host’s brain, promising to give scientists an entirely new way to study brain disorders – but raising ethical questions too. Professor Sergiu Pasca and colleagues at Stanford University in California took sesame seed-sized clumps of human…