People with artificial limbs can come to sense their prosthetic as part of their body — and in a new study, scientists showed ...

Li Zhang has anesthetized a lot of mice in his research career. Several years ago, the University of Southern California neuroscientist's team began noticing that sometimes, when they placed an ...

When you take the lab away, female mice are more likely to play, according to a new Cornell study. The study, published in the journal BMC Biology, took lab mice and placed them in large outdoor ...

Scientists stress out lab mice, a lot. Inducing chronic stress and anxiety in these furry critters is how scientists explore the bodily and cognitive effects of stress and discover anti-anxiety ...

Well, a new study in the journal Science hints that lab mice might do something similar. NPR's Jonathan Lambert has more. JONATHAN LAMBERT, BYLINE: Neuroscientist Li Zhang has anesthetized a lot ...

Top neuroscience labs are adapting new and unexpected tools to gain a deeper understanding of how mice, and ultimately humans, react to different drug treatments. By Peter Hess Published Jan 10 ...

tens of millions of mice are studied as a proxy for the human brain in labs. They’re small, they breed quickly, and they’re relatively easy to genetically manipulate, making mice ubiquitous in ...