Scientists stress out lab mice, a lot. Inducing chronic stress and anxiety in these furry critters is how scientists explore ...

There is one specific task that stress researchers who conduct animal experiments need to be particularly skilled at. This ...

With millions of mice and rats in US labs alone, scientists can learn a lot of information from their scurrying test subjects. These animals may be small, but their contribution to current research is ...

Calhoun began studying mice at the Jackson Memorial Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, before joining the National Institutes ...

Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection—among them, raising ...

However, research at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles may offer patients a glimmer of hope. Scientists there say they've ...

Could we pack the dementia-fighting benefits of exercise into a pill? An intriguing mouse study conducted by USC scientists ...

In a study led by Naim Bautista, a postdoctoral researcher in Jay Storz’s lab at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the team ...

Teams of mountaineering mice are helping advance understanding into how evolutionary adaptation to localized conditions can enable a single species to thrive across diverse environments.

Two enzymes in brain cells are responsible for mediating the toxic effects of certain fat molecules in multiple sclerosis, ...

Yes, escaped lab monkeys. Forty-three rhesus macaque monkeys escaped from a research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, on ...