In this project, funded by an AWI Refinement Grant, we tested whether raising male mice in partially divided cages affected aggression and behavioral performance from weaning through 180 days old in ...

Mice have a strong preference to nest away from their own waste, and mice in laboratories should be housed in a system of cages that allows them to segregate space into clean and dirty areas, ...

Mice given semaglutide, the key ingredient in drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, lost weight, but they also voluntarily ran less on a wheel.

Mice are cute but can cause damage to homes and spread illness, but there are ways to rid your home of mice without harming ...

In one experiment, Stowers painted the backs of male mice with urine and introduced them into the cages of knockout mice. The knockout mice failed to show aggression toward their new cage mates. “It ...

Most of the mice held at the Max Planck Institutes come from the Institutes’ own breeding programmes, though some are also obtained from professional breeders of lab animals. Trained animal keepers ...

Brun Ulfhake, a neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, found that the act of moving lab mice from their home cage to a separate testing area was undermining his team’s efforts ...

To overcome these problems, researchers are turning more to automated systems that monitor mice in their home cages, where they are least stressed. This improves the animals’ welfare ...

Mice, on the other hand, are a little trickier. They're easy to pick up and carry, but they're also extremely active and, like the hamster, prefer their independence. Rats are surprisingly clean ...

It's been known for a while that depression is contagious: If your roommate is depressed, you are much more likely to become ...

A new study led by Prof. Omry Koren and graduate student Atara Uzan-Yuzari from the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine at Bar-Ilan University has unveiled significant evidence connecting the gut ...

Mice, on the other hand, are a little trickier. They're easy to pick up and carry, but they're also extremely active and, like the hamster, prefer their independence. Rats are surprisingly clean ...