Rats aren’t the best roommates ... had sadly put this Lower Saxony town on the map. Deanne Baptista, manager of a Singaporean pest control company, told The Straits Times of the time she ...

More information: Kai Li et al, Construction and evaluation of a new rat reference genome assembly, GRCr8, from long reads and long-range scaffolding, Genome Research (2024). DOI: 10.1101/gr ...

The researchers were able to get a look at what was going on in the rats’ brains while all the drama was unfolding, meaning they could map which cells were active when the rats reached the ...