<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Cat pee makes male mice macho, females swoon : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/animals/"/><tagline>Cat pee makes male mice macho, females swoon : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-12-01T17:32:38+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Cat pee makes male mice macho, females swoon]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/61323/1/" /><id>61323</id><summary><![CDATA[Cat pee makes male mice macho, females swoon]]></summary><issued>2008-05-10T10:20:31+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-10T10:20:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Lady mice prefer cat urine drenched male mice over rabbit urine drenched male mice.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Australian scientists help fat mice lose weight]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/60007/1/" /><id>60007</id><summary><![CDATA[Australian scientists help fat mice lose weight]]></summary><issued>2008-04-29T09:11:16+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-29T09:11:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[By blocking the action of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) in mice, Australian researchers have influenced the behaviour of fat cells, causing the rodents to lose weight while simultaneously reducing blood pressure and reducing the risk of diabetes.<br/><br/>Cake loving mice everywhere are rejoicing.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Record Plague Of Mice]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36297/1/" /><id>36297</id><summary><![CDATA[Record Plague Of Mice]]></summary><issued>2007-09-20T20:33:22+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-20T20:33:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Remember the old &quot;Guinness Book of World Records&quot; TV show? Here is a story that will make you cringe. It is about the largest infestation of mice. The number of mice is sickening enough, but when they talk about the kid eating the dead mice...]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Scientists grow new prostate glands in mice]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/80277/1/" /><id>80277</id><summary><![CDATA[Scientists grow new prostate glands in mice]]></summary><issued>2008-10-25T17:59:45+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-25T17:59:45+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Using stem cells, scientists were able to grow completely new prostate glands in mice. The prostate is a gland that aids in creating and expelling semen, and is often the cause of cancer in older men. But now that researchers can grow prostates in mice, will doctors be regrowing human prostates any time soon?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Elephants v. Mice]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42779/1/" /><id>42779</id><summary><![CDATA[Elephants v. Mice]]></summary><issued>2007-11-28T21:03:14+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-28T21:03:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The mythbusters take on the age old myth of elephants being scared of mice. Who will take all in the battle royale?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Monster carnivorous mice overrun British-owned Gough Island]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/62590/1/" /><id>62590</id><summary><![CDATA[Monster carnivorous mice overrun British-owned Gough Island]]></summary><issued>2008-05-21T01:14:30+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-21T01:14:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A British owned island in the South Atlantic has been overrun by hundreds of thousands of monster mice which have evolved into carnivores.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[2 Billion Mice Overrun China]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/26780/1/" /><id>26780</id><summary><![CDATA[2 Billion Mice Overrun China]]></summary><issued>2007-07-09T22:41:33+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-09T22:41:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The trouble began when the Yangtze River flooded and drove the mice out of their holes - now the ravenous rodents are wreaking havoc across the countryside.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Paralyzed Mice Walk Again]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/18841/1/" /><id>18841</id><summary><![CDATA[Paralyzed Mice Walk Again]]></summary><issued>2007-05-03T01:19:53+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-03T01:19:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Samuel Stupp has a bunch of mice that used to drag their hind legs behind them when they crawled around his Illinois lab, but they have miraculously regained at least partial use of their rear legs.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[A woman who was trying to kill mice shoots herself and another]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/68172/1/" /><id>68172</id><summary><![CDATA[A woman who was trying to kill mice shoots herself and another]]></summary><issued>2008-07-09T10:04:23+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-09T10:04:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The mice escaped the shooting unharmed.<br/><br/><br/>I'm on a posting frenzy.. so sick of work]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Vibrating mice may hold obesity clue]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39345/1/" /><id>39345</id><summary><![CDATA[Vibrating mice may hold obesity clue]]></summary><issued>2007-10-23T20:53:46+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-23T20:53:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A short stint on a vibrating platform might slow the development of fat cells in mice by nearly 20%, according to controversial new research.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Super sensitive artificial nose powered by mouse urine]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/61324/1/" /><id>61324</id><summary><![CDATA[Super sensitive artificial nose powered by mouse urine]]></summary><issued>2008-05-10T10:25:16+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-10T10:25:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A team led by an Indian researcher has developed an electronic nose coated with mouse urine, which they say, can help sniff out trace quantities of explosives or pollutants, or pick out different smells for food quality control. Yeah!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Dr Teruhiko Wakayama brings frozen mice back to life as clones]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/80960/1/" /><id>80960</id><summary><![CDATA[Dr Teruhiko Wakayama brings frozen mice back to life as clones]]></summary><issued>2008-11-03T20:02:38+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-03T20:02:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Japanese scientists have cloned mice whose bodies were frozen for as long as 16 years and say it may be possible to use the technique to resurrect mammoths and other extinct species.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Who knew? Mice have vocal sex too, we just couldn't hear it]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/57048/1/" /><id>57048</id><summary><![CDATA[Who knew? Mice have vocal sex too, we just couldn't hear it]]></summary><issued>2008-04-04T12:42:42+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-04T12:42:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[No one knew exactly why mice sing, but rats make similar calls during sex, pleasant brain stimulation, and drug use, so psychologists thought the songs might be a sign of happiness.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Ew. EW!! Mice, everywhere! EW!!!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10031/1/" /><id>10031</id><summary><![CDATA[Ew. EW!! Mice, everywhere! EW!!!]]></summary><issued>2007-02-03T15:26:46+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-03T15:26:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Mouse plauge. A waterfall of mice. And it just keeps going. On and on. Forever. <br/><br/>(I know I hate Ebaum's, but I was so bored. Oh my.)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Sex on the brain? No, in the nose]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sex/l/30811/1/" /><id>30811</id><summary><![CDATA[Sex on the brain? No, in the nose]]></summary><issued>2007-08-09T14:28:50+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-09T14:28:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The difference between male and female sexual behaviour may be explained, in mice at least, by a tiny organ in the nose rather than gender-specific brain circuitry.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Science gives female mice the sex drive of males]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30488/1/" /><id>30488</id><summary><![CDATA[Science gives female mice the sex drive of males]]></summary><issued>2007-08-07T00:28:18+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-07T00:28:18+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Scientists had long attributed aggressive male mating tactics to a testosterone-induced hard-wiring of male brains.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Giant Mice Devouring Island Seabird Chicks, Threatening Extinction]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16359/1/" /><id>16359</id><summary><![CDATA[Giant Mice Devouring Island Seabird Chicks, Threatening Extinction]]></summary><issued>2007-04-14T07:54:59+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-14T07:54:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Mice conquer the world!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Cooped up birds, mice found in tiny apartment after stench alerts neighbours]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/14218/1/" /><id>14218</id><summary><![CDATA[Cooped up birds, mice found in tiny apartment after stench alerts neighbours]]></summary><issued>2007-03-26T21:25:59+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-26T21:25:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Pigeons and cannibal mice being raised by a man later detained under the province's mental health act.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Giant flesh-eating mice]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17189/1/" /><id>17189</id><summary><![CDATA[Giant flesh-eating mice]]></summary><issued>2007-04-20T12:27:46+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-20T12:27:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[INFRA-red footage showing a &quot;superbreed&quot; of giant flesh-eating house mice chewing into an albatross chick has been used as a stark warning of what awaits pest-infested Macquarie Island.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Forget Snakes on a Plane.  How about Mice in the Toilet?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/8763/1/" /><id>8763</id><summary><![CDATA[Forget Snakes on a Plane.  How about Mice in the Toilet?]]></summary><issued>2007-01-09T08:43:29+01:00</issued><modified>2007-01-09T08:43:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Small neighborhood adjacent to the University of Arizona see an influx of lab mice supposedly coming through their toilets.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Breakthrough: Eye Cells Regenerated in Live Mice]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/82796/1/" /><id>82796</id><summary><![CDATA[Breakthrough: Eye Cells Regenerated in Live Mice]]></summary><issued>2008-11-25T07:19:47+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-25T07:19:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Scientists have for the first time regrown retina cells in live mammals. The mouse study offers hope for similar success in human eye cells.]]></content></entry></feed>