In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...

Maybe it's a life hack or a liability, or a little of both. A surprising result in a new MIT study may suggest that people and animals alike share an inherent propensity to keep updating their ...

A new study shows that giving mice the human version of a gene changes their squeak, suggesting some of the genetic ...

A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...

This useful study presents a virtual reality-based contextual fear conditioning paradigm for head-fixed mice. The approach provides a way to perform multiphoton imaging of neural circuits during ...

Faces and places have changed, but the organization now based at 199 Willow Run Road has remained essentially the same ...

With the aid of a GPS collar, my hunting pal Jim Wood tracked the miles his dog had logged throughout the pheasant hunting ...

Nintendo’s patent pertaining to mouse functionality is now public, so here’s what it shows and what this could mean for the ...

Neurons that secrete the neuropeptide orexin help mice decide between exercise and snacking. I n neurobiologist Daria Peleg-Raibstein ’s lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, a ...

For pet and lab mice, running wheels are a common feature, often used to encourage exercise. However, some scientists have argued that mice only run on these wheels because they live in cages and that ...

Two brain regions work together when mice learn to override the instinct to run and hide from a potential threat.

In Germany, animal research is primarily carried out in the areas of basic research, medicine and veterinary medicine. Animal research can also be required to identify factors that pose a risk to the ...