11.   When researchers bred mice without the huntingtin gene, they died before birth, Wexler said.

12.   After breeding mice without this gene, the researchers infected them and a group of normal mice to the influenza virus and the Coxsackie virus.

13.   Chakra Biotech plans to breed chakragati mice and use them to test new products by drug makers, Ratty said.

14.   Dusit Zoo is cutting back on their fab food, tasty white mice bred at Mahidol University for lab experiments.

15.   Geneticists at Osaka University bred the mice by injecting embryos with the DNA of a species of North American jellyfish that glows under light.

16.   Genzyme essentially built a gene that produced the protein, bred mice with that gene, and found the mice secreted the protein in their milk.

17.   Researchers are now breeding mice that develop cancer naturally.

18.   Salk lead researcher Dr. Carrolee Barlow bred mice with the A-T gene defect and examined cells from the cerebellum, the brain region that controls movement.

19.   British scientists have bred a mouse that will help them in their effort to develop drugs to treat cystic fibrosis, the Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday.