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 ... are kept in ...

The amount of time and money that goes into creating and breeding genetically modified lines of mice highlights the importance ... Napa Nectar (SE Lab Group, Napa, CA) is a sterile product that ...

Environmental enrichment can also improve the breeding performance ... Van Lith, H.A. Individually ventilated cages: beneficial for mice and men? Contemp. Top. Lab. Anim. Sci.

(Moderator) "We rarely see this problem in rats but relatively often in mice, especially ... Since we have moved all our breeding colonies to a separate SPF unit where the animals are very little ...

These are not the first humanized mice ever bred — the lab animals are staples in research as they enable scientists to study ...

What is a mouse? Ask any small child and you will hear the answer ... on the order of 10 weeks from being born to giving birth. Third, females breed prolifically in the lab with an average of 5—10 ...

The Centre for Virus Research is breeding thousands of mosquitoes every ... "Then we put this blood capsule on top of the cage." The cage being a plastic cube with a net lid.

In addition, the wild mice are closely related to lab mice, for which a variety of genetic and genomic tools are available. “We are working on a non-model organism that is closely related to a model, ...

Spines, skulls, and whole mice skeletons can be scanned and used for phenotypic ... but there are no standardized ways to measure other regions for the time being (e.g. calvaria, rib cage, humerus).

53% of rabbits who had been housed in small, conventional cages were unable to hop when being removed ... about 20% of the time chewing on wood and branches. Housing pairs of non-breeding does ...

Mice breed rapidly and can quickly become unwelcome cohabitants. Mice carry diseases — salmonella, hantavirus and leptospirosis — and can pose health risks. While mice might seem harmless at ...

Fasting’s effects on our body might be more complicated than we thought. New research in mice suggests that fasting can speed up the healing of intestinal stem cells, but possibly make them more ...