In mice as in humans ... and protecting the embryo during development. Each mouse embryo has its own placenta and its own ...

A compelling biography about a groundbreaking scientist and his controversial work, using rodent cities to examine the ...

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 ...

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.

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

Relying less on animal testing for new drugs and more on lab-made “organoids” designed to mimic the functions of human organs ...

With millions of mice and rats in US labs alone, scientists can learn a lot of information from their scurrying test subjects ...

An unorthodox researcher pursuing ‘the private lives of rats’ opened what seemed to be a new window on human nature.

Cirrhosis, hepatitis infection and other causes can trigger liver fibrosis—a potentially lethal stiffening of tissue that, ...

After what must surely have been one of the oddest opening remarks to the Royal Society in its storied 200-plus-year history — “I shall largely speak of mice,” Calhoun began, “but my thoughts are on ...

New research from Cold Spring Harbor Labs shows that a compound related to vitamin K slowed the progression of prostate cancer in lab mice, offering a path for further study into one of the most ...