Michael Stryker and his colleagues from the University of California, San Francisco, recreated this condition in mice by sewing an eyelid shut for several weeks of the animals’ early lives. When their ...

But a new study suggests that the rodents enjoy running and when wild mice come across an exercise wheel they do exactly the same thing voluntarily. A group of scientists set up wheels in the wild ...

By monitoring the number of revolutions each mouse lapped on a running wheel that was placed in its cage, the researchers actually discovered that the miles logged by these mice appeared to correlate ...