When scientists opened the doors of a research facility and let carefully bred lab mice loose into a fenced field, they expected skittish, fragile animals to struggle. Instead, the mice rapidly shed ...

For generations, laboratory mice have lived and died under fluorescent lights, their world reduced to plastic cages and standardized pellets. When researchers finally moved some of these animals into ...

Neuroscientists have made a major advance in modeling the human brain in mice, offering a new way to study conditions like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The online admonition to "touch grass" to soothe your emotional state may be backed by science — at least in lab mice. A recent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dozens of laboratory mice allowed to roam a large outdoor enclosure returned to a typical level of mouse anxiety after just one ...

In the wild, a mouse or rat leads a precarious life. In the city, they dodge traps, poisons, and broom-wielding humans. In the countryside, they face owls, shotguns, and more poison. As Australia’s ...

This year could mark a turning point for one of science’s most familiar animals: the laboratory mouse. For decades, mice and rats have been indispensable to biomedical research, underpinning ...

Numerous potential treatments for neurological conditions, including autism spectrum disorders, have worked well in lab mice but then disappointed in humans. What would help is a noninvasive, ...

The prefrontal cortex, a brain region long associated with learning more flexible behaviors, can sometimes block the ability to think outside the box, a new study in mice shows. Science Advances ...