A study analyzing lab mice flown into space for 37 days may help determine what will have happened to Wilmore and Suni ...

During the last decade there have been vast improvements in the husbandry of large animals in our local zoos. Instead of living in the solitary cages that were formerly the norm, animals now more ...

Most of the mice held at the Max Planck Institutes come from the Institutes’ own breeding programmes, though some are also obtained from professional breeders of lab animals. Trained animal keepers ...

Well, a new study in the journal Science hints that lab mice might do something ... Several years ago, as he brought these knocked-out mice back to their cages, he started noticing that the ...

(Moderator) "We rarely see this problem in rats but relatively often in mice, especially in C57Bl/6 and Tg strains with C57Bl/6. It seems to be worse if the animals are nervous or have litters. Since ...

A new mouse model designed with a microbiome similar to that of wild mice may be a better predictor of human responses to some drugs than commonly used lab mice, according to a study published today ...