Scientists have already discovered that a mouse father's diet can have an impact not only on his own reproductive health but on that of his offspring. Over- or under-feeding male mice can affect ...

“Mice are a good model for human obesity . . . but it seems to me that, for diet, the mouse literature has gone off track,” said Craig Warden, who studies the genetics of body fat accumulation at the ...

Many people who have tried to lose weight by cutting calories are familiar with this frustrating reality: At some point, the ...

After eight weeks of eating a high-fat diet, mice that had been engineered with genes to activate the pathway didn't gain weight (left), but control animals whose Hedgehog pathways were not ...

If you’ve tried a slew of diets, hoping to lose weight, a research team at the University of Virginia has some comforting ...

The authors bring this issue into focus, and show how autofluorescence can be reduced in nude mice through selection of appropriate excitation wavelength and mouse diet. You have full access to ...

As with all animals kept in our animal research facility, the mouse was fed autoclaved mouse diet (LM-485 Mouse/Rat Sterilizable Diet, Harlan Teklad Laboratory Animal Diets & Bedding, Madison ...