The laboratory mouse is widely considered the model organism of choice for studying the diseases of humans, with whom they share 99% of their genes. A distinguished history of mouse genetic ...

the mouse was fed autoclaved mouse diet (LM-485 Mouse/Rat Sterilizable Diet, Harlan Teklad Laboratory Animal Diets & Bedding, Madison, WI) and drank demineralized and acidified water (pH 2.5–3.0).

US company Colossal Biosciences has announced the creation of a "woolly mouse"—a laboratory mouse with a series of genetic modifications that lead to a woolly coat. The company claims this is the ...

A new study by UCLA Health has discovered what researchers say is the first drug to fully reproduce the effects of physical ...

“It all started from an accidental observation,” says Li Zhang, a systems neuroscientist at the Keck School of Medicine of ...

Scientists at Colossal Biosciences have achieved a milestone to resurrecting the woolly mammoth: laboratory mice with thick, ...

Colossal Biosciences leaders say the fluffy, golden-haired mice help validate their technique to “de-extinct” species, but ...

In 1929 the Jackson Laboratory was founded in the United States to study the genetics of mammals and cancer. Subsequently, scientists learned more and more about the genome of the mouse: from the ...

Rob Taft, a principal scientist at The Jackson Laboratory, a biomedical research institution that helped pioneer humanized lab mice, said via email that the woolly mouse was an “innovative extension ...

New active ingredients such as antibodies are usually tested individually in laboratory animals. Researchers at UZH have now ...

Many modern drugs are based on antibodies. These proteins very specifically identify a certain structure on the surface of ...