For centuries, dogs have been bred and trained to help humans in a variety of tasks, including hunting, herding, and g ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Miraculously, their mice pups were fertile. Although rare, this sort of thing can happen every so often with just the right combination of genes. In addition to their baby-making capabilities ...

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 ...

"We really tried to establish a system to duplicate the X chromosome." The technique was used to create seven mice pups, which scientists said appeared healthy. Hayashi says it could be used in ...

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 ...