The millions of mice used in labs are extremely important for medical research. But for them, life is almost always miserable. Imagine spending your entire life in a shoebox-sized cell, with stagnant ...

When laboratory mice step out of their plastic cages and into real soil, their behavior changes so dramatically that it forces a rethink of what stress, health and even “normal” really mean. The story ...

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Researchers have created genome-wide, high-resolution genetic maps of 100 inbred mouse strains. Compared with wild-derived strains, most of today's classical lab strains have limited genetic diversity ...

Mice pups conceived with in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the lab have slightly increased rates of DNA errors, or mutations, compared to pups conceived naturally, a new study on artificial reproductive ...

Li Zhang has anesthetized a lot of mice in his research career. Several years ago, the University of Southern California neuroscientist began noticing that sometimes, when he placed an anesthetized ...

Behavioral novelty in the singing mouse. (a) Phylogenetic relationship of the two focal species: singing mouse and lab mouse, which diverged around 25 million years ago (mya). (b) Example spectrogram ...

New research suggests mice may exhibit revival-like behaviors to help unconscious mice recover faster. Lab mice may give 'first aid' to unconscious mates Li Zhang has anesthetized a lot of mice in his ...