An experiment in lab mice found that certain human gut bacteria can absorb PFAS, commonly called "forever chemicals," until ...

Approximately three quarters of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development — representing 1,000 ...

Labs are killing their mice to save the $1.40 per day it costs to feed each cage and clean up after. And a Harvard Medical ...

Small, 3D-printed devices, designed to be implanted directly under the skin, could allow people with type 1 diabetes to ...

Research led by the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing has discovered that switching on a single dormant ...

The lab mouse is the most ubiquitous animal in biomedical research, but that doesn't mean it's always the best subject for researching disease. In a series of articles for Slate magazine, ...

A new book offers a valuable discussion of the double bind in which many researchers and lab technicians find themselves: having to care for animals who will then be killed.

Lab mice are often the first testing ground for human drugs, from vaccines to cancer treatments. But an oft-overlooked detail of their accommodations in laboratories is raising concerns about the ...

Now, he and his colleagues show that unconscious mice elicit a suite of behaviors from cage mates that seem to speed recovery from anesthesia. Oxytocin neurons, which underlie helping behaviors in ...

A typical mouse laboratory is kept between 20 and 26 degrees C, but if the mice had it their way, it would be a warm 30 degrees C. While the mice are still considered healthy at cooler ...

A typical mouse laboratory is kept between 20 and 26 degrees C, but if the mice had it their way, it would be a warm 30 degrees C. While the mice are still considered healthy at cooler ...