Murine viruses and bacteria can both confound experimental results and compromise the health status of laboratory mouse colonies. Such infectious agents can be introduced into colonies via ...

Current guidelines pertaining to the housing of laboratory animals express caging standards for rodents in terms of minimum floor space and minimum height, relative to the body weight of the animal.

A NARROW conveyor belt runs between a lorry and a set of pallets stacked ten-high with shoebox-sized containers. Inside each of them is a clutch of mice ready for dispatch to some distant laboratory, ...

Scientists have engineered a hybrid mouse with a gene that predates all animal life. The team replaced a single gene in the mouse stem cells with a version from an ancient, single-celled ancestor, and ...

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Ramping the resolution The QST research team with the new high-resolution PET scanner. From left to right: Hidekatsu Wakizaka ...

Researchers have described different emotional facial expressions for mice. Similar to humans, the face of a mouse looks completely different when it tastes something sweet or bitter, or when it ...

Only ten States (in the Southeast) are comparatively free from mice. In the other 38 States, 1,000 mice allowed to run on the 65 million acres of hay raised per year would chew up 30 million dollars ...