"Borjigin’s team implanted electrodes on the surface of the brains of nine rats, then injected the animals with potassium chloride, causing their hearts to stop beating and blood to stop flowing."
-- http://www.ghosttheory.com/2014/01/12/signs-of-consciousness-after-death-found-in-rats

"Studying female rats, they found that “chronic physical stress modifies [sexual behavior] ... "
-- http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/09/23/naomi-wolf-vagina/

"scientists at Kent State University, Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University have proposed the living liquid crystal (LLC) – a new class of active matter with motile rod-shaped bacteria placed in a water-based nontoxic lyotropic liquid crystal (LC) environment. The researchers found that the novel material ..."
-- http://phys.org/news/2014-01-alive-scientists-combine-liquid-crystals.html

"Dr. LeBrun and his colleagues ... exposed crazy ants to fire ant venom ... they repeatedly seemed to take their own venom from a pore in their abdomens and spread it all over themselves.  After this behavior, 98 percent of the crazy ants survived. When the scientists blocked the pore that releases the venom, only 48 percent survived."
-- http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/14/science/a-crazy-ant-invader-uses-acid-to-its-advantage.html?ref=science&_r=0

"the engineers applied an electric pulse to nerves in a frog leg so that the calf muscle would contract. They then severed the sciatic nerve and connected the two ends with either the liquid metal alloy or Ringer’s solution"
-- http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/04/scientists-have-reconnected-severed-nerves-with-liquid-metal/

"To produce their results, the Swiss scientists severed the spinal cords of a half-dozen rats and then implanted flexible electrodes into the lower part of their spinal cords."
-- http://www.technologyreview.com/news/531051/paralyzed-rats-take-1000-steps-orchestrated-by-computer/

"Notable developments by CSIRO have included ... the introduction of a series of biological controls into Australia, such as the introduction of myxomatosis and rabbit calicivirus for the control of rabbit populations."
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Scientific_and_Industrial_Research_Organisation

"These placentas are from genetically-modified mice, each with their own distinct immune system. The resulting “Placenta Rainbow” highlights the differences in placental development that can result from the manipulation of the mother’s immune system"
-- http://gizmodo.com/this-years-best-science-photos-are-so-good-theyre-basic-1793004117

"Moroz is circumventing this by outfitting a ship with modern research equipment for sequencing genomes, growing embryos, and stimulating neurons in living animals on site."
-- https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-ctenophore-says-about-the-evolution-of-intelligence