In the wild, a mouse or rat leads a precarious life. In the city, they dodge traps, poisons, and broom-wielding humans. In the countryside, they face owls, shotguns, and more poison. As Australia’s ...

Scientists at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Hong Kong have created a mouse with substituted genes from a single-celled organism known as a choanoflagellate. Scientists replaced ...

The mouse on the left is a chimeric with dark eyes and patches of black fur, a result of stem cells derived from a choanoflagellate Sox gene. The wildtype mouse on the right has red eyes and all white ...