Sentence examples for blind rats from inspiring English sources

"We were able to improve the vision of these blind rats," said co-lead author Reyna Hernalsoz-Benitez, alsofof the Salk Institute.

Stem cells taken from the back of a human eye have restored some vision to blind rats, according to researchers.

Within only 4 days of getting the implant, blind rats were taking the correct path through a maze to find hidden food 80% of the time.

Scientists have gifted navigational skills to blind rats by wiring them with a compass that sends electric signals to their brain when they're facing north or south.

Blind rats in a sterile maze, for instance, have trouble finding their way around even when they've been in the maze before.

Hiroaki Norimoto and Yuji Ikegaya of the University of Tokyo attached newly designed compass implants to the heads of blind rats to see if the rodents could learn to better navigate.

The word "patronising" has ricocheted through social media like a blind rat trapped in a bin.

For instance, some assemblages, such as blind mole rats and bamboo rats, are very distinctive and have been treated in the past as separate families.

Owing to the convergence of morphological traits and the incongruence of molecular evidence, the phylogenetic relationships among three subfamilies Myospalacinae (zokors), Spalacinae (blind mole rats) and Rhizomyinae (bamboo rats) within the family Spalacidae remain unresolved.

There are two genera of blind mole rats: lesser, or Mediterranean, blind mole rats (three species in the genus Nannospalax) and greater, or Ukrainian, blind mole rats (five species in the genus Spalax).

They maintain colonies of several species of rodents — some familiar, like mice and guinea pigs, and some much more exotic, like blind mole rats from Israel and naked mole rats from East Africa.