WASHINGTON — An international team of scientists announced Wednesday that it has completed the genetic map of the mouse, an animal revered among researchers as much as it’s reviled by homeowners ...

The mouse work, an offshoot of the Human Genome Project, should facilitate greatly the search for the all-important genetic identities and roles. As the premier research tool in investigations of ...

Comparative analysis of complete genome sequences for several mammals is predicted to provide greater understanding of biological processes and impact on human health. In an Advanced Early Publication ...

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That researchers' staple, the laboratory mouse, has undergone the ultimate dissection: two competing teams have completed the most thorough maps yet of its genetic variation. The catalogue of 8.27 ...

The public-domain effort to sequence the mouse genome is set to accelerate, following the completion of a physical map of the genome. Sequence data flowing from the international Mouse Sequencing ...

The Roman poet Horace, who wrote that ``the mountain laboured to give birth to ridiculus mus, would certainly not have seen eye-to-eye with Craig Venter, the president and chief scientific officer of ...