It's the oldest mammalian derived life form that we know of.

These are normal mammalian cells genetically engineered with a bioluminescent gene taken out of deep sea jellyfish.

We are one species of about five and a half thousand mammalian species that exist on planet Earth today.

A mammalian fetus, if it loses a limb during the first trimester of pregnancy, will re grow that limb.

They're even better models of environmental health, because not only the same mammalian biology, but they share your diet, largely.

Terrible news for the dinosaurs, but great news for our mammalian ancestors, who flourished in the niches left empty by the dinosaurs.

I don't have time to get into all this, but if you want to understand how a brain works, you have to understand how the first part of the mammalian neocortex works, how it is we store patterns and make predictions.

In his editorial, Kirschner bemoaned the tendency to equate significance to any form of medical relevance, noting that it caused research into non mammalian systems to be treated as intrinsically less valuable than studies on human cells. As a result, simple but informative model systems can be overlooked, and an important link between basic science and human medicine can be lost.

It is Darwin s second powerful idea the idea that even the most complicated features of organisms are the outcome of natural selection that has been the key to his theory s long term success. Natural selection has provided scientific explanations of traits as diverse as the mammalian eye, the bird s wing, and the ability of plants to transform light into sugars.

Thus, although a true synaptome of the mammalian brain is a chimerical quest, it is possible that in the near future we will be able to construct a silicon cortex, a computerized machine based on a realistic model of the complete anatomical, physiological, and molecular design of the cortical circuit. If we succeed, we will finally be able to see the forest without having to look for every tree.