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Lab mice are often the first testing ground for human drugs, from vaccines to cancer treatments. But an oft-overlooked detail of their accommodations in laboratories is raising concerns about the ...

An experiment in lab mice found that certain human gut bacteria can absorb PFAS, commonly called "forever chemicals," until ...

Laboratory mice live in sterile environments controlled by humans. Joseph Garner, assistant professor of animal sciences, said that can be stressful for the animals because they do not have much ...

He sent Lutz his lab's unused frozen sperm, which was used to impregnate mice in the Jackson labs. The first batch of new mice was born March 2. But producing enough mice to meet the demand takes ...

Research labs are home to mice of all sizes and shapes and genes. There’s your common and ordinary dark-coated Black-6, one of the most intensely scrutinized animals on the planet.

The lab mice with wild microbiomes had fewer and less severe tumors than those with the lab microbiomes. “We hypothesized that this might explain why laboratory mice, ...

A typical mouse laboratory is kept between 20 and 26 degrees C, but if the mice had it their way, it would be a warm 30 degrees C. While the mice are still considered healthy at cooler ...

Now, he and his colleagues show that unconscious mice elicit a suite of behaviors from cage mates that seem to speed recovery from anesthesia. Oxytocin neurons, which underlie helping behaviors in ...

Lab mice might be doing their own experiments. New research suggests that mice base their decisions on more than just immediate reward. They may also make 'mistakes' on purpose.

A mouse has been created by researchers in the lab using genetic techniques that hail from hundreds of millions of years ago, before life as we knew it ever existed ...