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The agency is cutting animal testing of chemicals. Some scientists are concerned, but in the meantime the rats (and zebra ...
The Mickey Mouse Lifestyle Land, Sea, and Air Collector’s Set features one brand new Disney Citizen watch, the Alpine Mickey Mouse watch. This watch is inspired by the short 1936 animated film ...
Now, he and his colleagues show that unconscious mice elicit a suite of behaviors from cage mates that seem to speed recovery from anesthesia. Oxytocin neurons, which underlie helping behaviors in ...
They share more genetic material with humans than fruit flies do and can’t fly away — in short, an ideal lab animal for the developmental biologist. Scientists have been using sea urchins to ...
A new book offers a valuable discussion of the double bind in which many researchers and lab technicians find themselves: having to care for animals who will then be killed.
An experiment in lab mice found that certain human gut bacteria can absorb PFAS, commonly called "forever chemicals," until they are excreted, new study finds.
A fungus discovered in the mouse stomach may hold a key to fungal evolution within the gastrointestinal tract, according to new research led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.
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 ...
In a study led by Naim Bautista, a postdoctoral researcher in Jay Storz's lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the team took highland deer mice and their lowland cousins on a simulated ...
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 ...