mouse
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The researchers observed the same pattern in mice, specifically in a mouse model for Alzheimer's disease.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
The party’s attempts to plug such leaks have become a game of cat and mouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
While the peptide’s risks and side effects are few, and its effects on mouse metabolism compelling, no one knows how long-term use affects humans yet, or what formula or dosage would be most effective.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Don’t miss: If Social Security’s funding crisis is the elephant in the room, this is the mouse everyone has overlooked.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
She was called the wisest mouse in both Westchester and Dutchess counties.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
A third group consisted of normal, unmodified mice that served as controls.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
In mice, circulating levels of these metabolites remained high even after antibiotic treatment disrupted the microbiome.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
The team is currently using animals such as mice to establish baseline measurements of how fluid normally moves through the brain.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
The results showed that soybean oil increased OPA1 expression in male wild-type mice, but the same increase was not seen in females.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
Though water in any form is not a happy subject with us mice.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
For one, the dock occasionally disappeared when I opened a full-screen Chrome tab in laptop mode, and it didn’t pop up when I moused around the bottom of the screen.
From The Verge ● Aug. 31, 2022
I have moused and clicked through a few, mostly ones I could watch without covering the screen whenever the children walked by.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2020
Figuring that black-clad subversives might congregate on the indie boards, I moused over to Pop Genius to check out the state of the conversation around Death Cab For Cutie.
From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2015
Jamie videoed her dance routine and then they ran it in slow motion and moused it into shape, speeding up moves or slowing them down, repositioning legs, arms and head.
From Nature ● Mar. 17, 2015
He moused around the post-office a little and put forth a few discreet feelers here and there, in order to discover whether San Pasqual, generally speaking, was at all interested.
From The Long Chance by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
He was moved out of the department's central London building during the Covid pandemic and in 2020 he formally retired from his mousing duties.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025
Typing and mousing for long periods is stressful for the finger and wrist muscles as well as the forearms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
When mousing in snow, the fox's long snout also allows it to reach its prey earlier, as mice are very sensitive to movements in their environment and can quickly escape.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024
If the DeskPad feels like overkill, try Logitech’s $19.99 Desk Mat, a soft-cloth mat with a nice mousing feel in an assortment of soft colors.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
Charles said harshly, “Say, what you mousing around at?”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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