A knockout mouse is a laboratory mouse in which one or more genes have been turned off or "knocked out." To create a knockout mouse, scientists genetically engineer the animal by disrupting a gene ...

Now a team has identified dozens of these genetic mutations in a screen of gene-targeted 'knockout' mice. Albinism is the best-known of a group of rare genetic disorders that can affect both eyes ...

(Getty Images) The University of California, Davis, has been awarded just over $12 million from the National Institutes of Health under the third and final five-year phase of the Knockout Mouse ...

Collaborating with study co-authors Zachi Horn, a former postdoc in the Hatten lab, and with assistance from Shiaoching Gong, of Weill Cornell Medicine, Hanzel spent two years creating a knockout ...

JONATHAN LAMBERT, BYLINE: Neuroscientist Li Zhang has anesthetized a lot of mice for his research. Several years ago, as he brought these knocked-out mice back to their cages, he started noticing ...

New Joslin Diabetes Center study links brain insulin signaling, type 2 diabetes, and Alzheimer’s, revealing targets for ...

Researchers have identified a cause for chronic bad breath (halitosis), with the help of gene knockout mice. An international team of researchers has identified a cause for chronic bad breath ...

“In light of these findings, published studies involving immune or hematopoietic phenotypes in which these C57BL/6 mice have been used as controls, as experimental animals, or for backcrossing will ...

RASCOE: So let's talk about the study. You and your colleagues temporarily knocked out mice with some medication or blocked their airways with a non-toxic ball. You noticed that the mice that were ...

The Knockout Mouse Phenotyping Program (KOMP2) sites at Baylor College of Medicine, Jackson Laboratory, and University of California, Davis, are collaborating with the International Mouse Phenotyping ...