The Irf8 floxed mouse strain can be used to selectively ablate expression of IRF8 in any cell type in which a Cre recombinase gene is activated. This will permit the identification of IRF8 ...

To generate a tissue specific knockout mouse, researchers breed a mouse bearing a Cre transgene under a tissue- or cell-type specific or inducible promoter (A) with a homozygous floxed mouse (B). The ...

Patients call it being 'floxed'. Yet despite patients going public with similar experiences, physicians are still prescribing the drug to at least 2million people every year. Looking back ...