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

The AI-powered home-cage monitoring solution is poised ... 2024) – The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), a nonprofit biomedical ...

After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats could learn to drive forward by grasping a small wire that acted ...

The lab has partnered with Allentown Inc., an Allentown, N.J., maker of animal housing, to launch a home-cage mouse monitoring system that integrates with JAX’s cloud-based artificial ...

Archon Biosciences emerges from stealth to advance a new class of biologic invented in Nobel Prize-winning computational ...

We’ve all heard of lab rats, or seen cartoons with mice dashing through mazes. These furry mammals aren’t just cute. They’re small, easy to breed, and cheap. Importantly, they’re also ...

Authorities say 43 monkeys bred for medical research that escaped a compound in South Carolina have been spotted in the woods ...

Highland deer mice and their lowland cousins ventured on a simulated seven-week ascent to 6,000 meters. By tracking how the mice responded to cold stress and progressively lower oxygen levels, the ...

To find out, Lu's group first induced liver inflammation and fibrosis in lab mice. They then treated those mice with a substance known as FDI-6 that blocks the protein produced by the FOXM1 gene.

Risking Preclinical Toxicology Studies  Preclinical toxicology studies face a significant challenge: animal models cannot self-report side effects. This limitation proves particularly problematic when ...