There is an urgent need to model in a laboratory setting the capacity of wild-type influenza viruses to transmit between mammals, to determine the molecular determinants and identify biological ...

Ferrets have an outer brain layer that is large and folded – similar to that of humans. A new genetically engineered ferret has a smaller brain (right 3-D rendering) than a normal ferret (left) and ...

Scientists have engineered ferrets genetically to study abnormally small brain size in humans -- and, in the process, discovered hints as to how our brains evolved. A genetically engineered ferret ...

Humans have really big brains compared to a lot of animals. It’s sort of our thing. Scientists have presented various hypotheses about how humans developed these big brains — including one about our ...

The black-footed ferret is one of North America’s most endangered mammals, due to the decimation of its prey species, the prairie dog. Researchers need to determine which prairie dog colony complexes ...

A genetically engineered ferret could help reveal how humans got their big brains. By inactivating a gene linked to abnormally small brain size in humans, researchers have created the first ferret ...