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Eeek! Daring mouse goes nose-to-nose with a huge cat but the curious moggy just wants to SNIFF it

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Eeek! Daring mouse goes nose-to-nose with a huge cat but the curious moggy just wants to SNIFF it Startling scene saw the rodent walk right up to a huge cat called Mercedes The video filmed in the US shows the cat deciding to investigate further The daring rodent doesn’t move away and instead moves closer … Read more

A mother’s obesity may raise liver cancer risks for generations to come, mouse study suggests 

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A mother’s obesity may raise liver cancer risks for generations to come, mouse study suggests Researchers fed mice a high-fat diet so they would become obese and then exposed them to a liver carcinogen The diet led to an over-expression of a gene that is abnormally expressed in various types of cancer This increased odds of the … Read more

Research generates mature human cells inside mouse embryo

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Scientists say they have been able to produce millions of mature human cells in a mouse embryo for the first time. The researchers injected human stem cells into a mouse embryo, which then generated millions of mature human cells as it developed.  The researchers claim that up to four per cent of the total number of … Read more

Terrifying moment a ‘murder hornet’ kills a mouse in under one minute

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A deadly ‘murder hornet’ killed a mouse at least twice its size in a matter seconds.  The Asian giant hornet – nicknamed the murder hornet – demonstrated just how lethal it was when it took easily took out a mouse with it’s venom.  Cell phone footage of the incident shows a mouse desperately trying to … Read more