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A golden spiny mouse. (Mickey Samuni-Blank, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)
April 27, 2026, 4:57 pm
Night light disrupts antibody production rhythms, may raise risk of death, Israeli study finds
Tel Aviv University research on mice, with implications for humans, finds artificial lighting from sources as common as streetlights disrupts mammalian immune system’s natural sense of time
By Sue Surkes
Mouse uses its whiskers to touch and hear its environment. (Shutterstock)
June 4, 2025, 10:29 am
In breakthrough that may aid blind, Israeli scientists find mice use whiskers to ‘hear’
Weizmann Institute researchers use AI models to show the act of ‘whisking’ allows mice to generate sounds that, encoded in their brain’s auditory cortex, aid them in navigation
By Diana Bletter
Illustrative: Laboratory mice. (toeytoey2530/Istock via Getty Images)
December 3, 2021, 8:49 am
Israeli lab raises hyperactive mutant mice for developing ADHD medications
Peer-reviewed research invites scholars worldwide to breed mice with a single ADHD mutation discovered in Bedouin family, as they give ‘unprecedented insight’ into brain function
By Nathan Jeffay
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March 18, 2021, 1:53 pm
Podcast: Daily Briefing Mar. 18 – The future is now: An Israeli artificial womb
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By ToI Staff
A mouse embryo grows in the artificial womb at the Weizmann Institute of Science (courtesy of the Weizmann Institute of Science)
March 17, 2021, 6:02 pm
In breakthrough, Israelis grow hundreds of mouse embryos in artificial wombs
Scientists say groundbreaking method could lead to human gestation outside the womb; new insight into organ formation could spur other advances; fetuses have fully formed organs
By Nathan Jeffay
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