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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

The knockout mice participated in several noninvasive behavioral experiments to see how they compared to their wild-type nestmates. The knockout mice showed distinctly different characteristics in ...

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 ...

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 ...