Ï㽶ÊÓƵ News - Biomedical research /channels/news_feeds/all/term/Biomedical%20research/rss en Call for Applications: Banting Fellowship 2024 /channels/channels/news/call-applications-banting-fellowship-2024-356664 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/banting_fellowship_2024.jpg?itok=yZMRmGU_" width="160" height="226" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">9 </span><span class="month">April </span><span class="year">2024</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:10:27 +0000 webfull 199289 at /channels Are scientists studying the wrong kind of mice? /channels/channels/news/are-scientists-studying-wrong-kind-mice-292312 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Mice represent well over half of the non-human subjects of biomedical research, and the vast majority of those mice are inbred. Formed by generation after generation of mating between brothers and sisters, inbred mice are genetically identical to each other, like twins or clones. Inbreeding is well known to reduce health and vigor across species; this biological fact is the reason that incest is a universal taboo.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/lab-mouse.jpg?itok=wK5SzEbM" width="160" height="111" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">4 </span><span class="month">December </span><span class="year">2018</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 04 Dec 2018 15:45:16 +0000 webfull 143922 at /channels