mouse
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Working with other researchers, they examined myelin formation in additional mouse models using several different methods.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 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
“That brainless brother of yours will welcome any reason to miss these last weeks of mouse school. He’d sooner drown than finish the semester.”
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
The researchers observed the same pattern in mice, specifically in a mouse model for Alzheimer's disease.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
They found that mice lacking CRH receptor 1 produced more OPCs during the early stages of development.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
When laboratory mice experience brain damage, e.g., from an injection, Jan Deussing repeatedly notices the same response.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
The researchers noted that this process does not appear to occur in other species such as mice or non-human primates.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Though water in any form is not a happy subject with us mice.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
I moused over the exclamation mark next to “Onboarding” and a helpful pop-up appeared.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2026
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
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
People stood about looking on; some poked at the embers of the smoky fires, some moused and prowled about to see what scrap they might pick up.
From The Hidden Children by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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
Vermont State University’s Castleton campus is honoring the feline not for his mousing or napping, but for his friendliness.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
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
It ain’t nowhere near’s sly nor quick as a cat; it ain’t no good at all at mousing nor catching holt of birds without a lot of help.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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