rat
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The genes of your roommate may be shaping the bacteria in your gut, and your genes may be influencing theirs, according to a rat study published on December 18 in Nature Communications.
From Science Daily
I’m not Joanna Stern, who wants singing cars and robot dishwashers and still elected to rat out the Journal’s AI vending machine for selling fine wine and delicious live fish.
When everything from the rats to the Christmas tree get bigger, so does Clara as she goes from a young girl to an adolescent.
From Los Angeles Times
The team measured the stress hormone corticosterone in the rats, which is the rodent equivalent of the human stress hormone cortisol.
From Science Daily
She explained that rats were chosen for the behavioral portion of the research because they typically perform more consistently than mice on longer and more complex tasks.
From Science Daily
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