A new contender for a human 'language gene' can change the way that mice squeak when it is incorporated into their DNA. The ...

In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...

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A new study shows that giving mice the human version of a gene changes their squeak, suggesting some of the genetic ...

A new study shows that giving mice the human version of a gene changes their squeak, suggesting some of the genetic underpinnings of language.

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“This is the first mouse model ... for healthy growth, and some eventually begin to die. But research studying these telomeres at the cellular level has been challenging in humans, according ...