“It all started from an accidental observation,” says Li Zhang, a systems neuroscientist at the Keck School of Medicine of ...

The team first applied this method to map the mouse’s peripheral nervous system. After fixing the mouse’s body, Luo and his colleagues pumped solutions containing the cholesterol-removing molecule, ...

This happens because the body perceives a potential starvation threat and adapts ... However, he stresses that the team's findings are currently based on mouse models, meaning human trials are still a ...

On the day the experiment will start: Print and fill out a log sheet with the mouse IDs, Experimental group, diet, sex, date-of-birth of the mice (if relevant), body weight at the start of the study, ...

This happens because the body perceives a potential starvation threat ... However, he stresses that the team’s findings are currently based on mouse models, meaning human trials are still ...

The mouse accesses food by eating from a spring-loaded feeder through an anti-foraging guard; this guard also prevents full body access to the dish. (For mice that weigh less than 12 g this is not ...

The pygmy mouse lemur is the smallest primate in the world. Its head and body are less than two and a half inches long, though its tail is a bit more than twice that length. These threatened ...

We then injected 8-week-old mice (n = 18) with this dose of STZ and examined the relationship between initial mouse body weight and diabetes severity (evaluated according to weight loss and BGL).