When laboratory mice step out of their plastic cages and into real soil, their behavior changes so dramatically that it forces a rethink of what stress, health and even “normal” really mean. The story ...

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Scientists have advanced human-animal chimera research by successfully growing human cells within the organs of mice. This development could bring experts closer to the goal of custom-growing human ...

As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment.

When we humans encounter an unconscious person, we might spring into action and try to revive them. Well, a new study in the journal Science hints that lab mice might do something similar. NPR's ...

Purified diets have long been used in lab animal research. But a recent argument posits that there may be a reason why successful animal research doesn’t always translate into the same clinical ...

In a lab at the University of Yamanashi, one mouse line kept coming back in a form that looked almost unchanged. Researchers began with a single female donor and used her cells to make a clone, then ...