With millions of mice and rats in US labs alone, scientists can learn a lot of information from their scurrying test subjects ...

Trailing behind the fluffy animal, however, is a tail longer than the rest of its body combined, more than 6 inches long, ...

Teams of mountaineering mice are helping advance understanding into how evolutionary adaptation to localized conditions can ...

Highland deer mice and their lowland cousins ventured on a simulated seven-week ascent to 6,000 meters. By tracking how the mice responded to cold stress and progressively lower oxygen levels, the ...

US researchers have found an astonishingly simple brain circuit of just three types of neurons controls chewing motions in ...

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch.

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch.

Researchers identified 16 distinct types of nerve cells involved in human touch and compared them with those in mice and macaques, showing both shared and unique traits.

Teams of mountaineering mice are helping advance understanding into how evolutionary adaptation to localized conditions can enable a single species to thrive across diverse environments.

This review discussed experimental mouse models used in the pre-clinical study of liver fibrosis regression, a pivotal ...

New research shows that microglia, which usually clear debris, cause harmful inflammation in the presence of APOE4 protein.

Certain types of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease ... virus to make it produce tau and administered it nasally to mice with genes prone to developing dementia. The vaccine appeared to ...