In a different set of experiments, Fujioka and his team characterized the condition of the mice pups after the meconium slurry administration by analyzing the mice's biochemical and gene ...

About 1% of the embryos--out of 630--grew into live mouse pups. The pups appeared to grow normally and were able to become parents themselves in the usual way, research leader Katsuhiko Hayashi of ...

The average litter size has been found to vary from as few as three pups to as many as nine. Although mice from some laboratory lines can survive as long as three years, free-living wild animals are ...

New research reveals how smell and hearing interact in the brain during maternal behaviors like pup retrieval in mice.

I often hear gnawing and the scurrying of little feet inside the walls of our house. Mice have taken shelter in our old ...

It's normal for cats to catch mice on occasion, especially when they roam the outdoors freely. Dogs, however, don't chase after rodents as frequently, so it can be a shock to a pup parent if their ...

Researchers have found that when a mouse learns to become afraid of a certain odor, his or her pups will be more sensitive to that odor, even though the pups have never encountered it. The results ...

Despite this suggestion, not all the mice pups that Jirtle observed grew to be unhealthy. In other words, bisphenol exposure didn't guarantee obesity in mice; rather, it simply increased the risk ...

A groundbreaking Genomic Press Interview reveals that prepartum bumetanide treatment successfully reverses altered neonatal ...

The treatment didn’t harm the fetuses. Rather, it helped them grow, and the newborn mouse pups were closer to a healthy weight. The new approach is “an innovative method,” wrote Ravi Thadhani at Emory ...