We decided to keep the mouse as a teaching case under an approved IACUC protocol. The juvenile runted mouse was housed in a separate cage for a period of one month to allow for catch-up growth ...

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.

Research Note Published: June 2010 Effect of cage-change frequency on rodent breeding performance Amy E. Sanderson, Heather M. Multari, Jeffrey J. Lohmiller & Samuel R. Boutin Lab Animal 39, 177 ...

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But that hasn’t stopped the furor. After the article, national media outlets published stories saying the lab had bioengineered mice to carry COVID-19.

The novel cue-induced analgesia paradigm allowed a compelling identification of a brainstem circuit element, i.e., somatostatin-expressing neurons within the ventrolateral periaqueductal grey that ...

The harvest mouse - Europe's smallest rodent - has returned to a city's marshlands after 50 years. The tiny mice, which weigh less than a 50p coin, have been found at Breary Marsh in Leeds for the ...

Bartelik, A., Čater, M., Cevik, Ö. S. et al. 2024. Focus on novel approaches: Home-cage monitoring of laboratory mice. Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Science 50, 1–5. Assessment of ...

This valuable study identifies asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) histones as potential determinants of the initial genomic binding of Rhino, a Drosophila-specific chromatin protein essential for ...

Scientists have advanced human-animal chimera research by successfully growing human cells within the organs of mice. This development could bring experts closer to the goal of custom-growing ...

De Monte M., Le Pape, G. 1997. Behavioural effects of cage enrichment in single-caged adult cats. Animal Welfare 6, 53-66. A loss of interest in objects [tennis ball suspended 12 cm above the floor; ...

After 30 minutes, these volunteers then place their arms into the first two of four cages of 200 disease-free mosquitoes for 5 minutes. Our testers watch closely to see what happens inside the ...