When scientists opened the doors of a research facility and let carefully bred lab mice loose into a fenced field, they expected skittish, fragile animals to struggle. Instead, the mice rapidly shed ...

For generations, laboratory mice have lived and died under fluorescent lights, their world reduced to plastic cages and standardized pellets. When researchers finally moved some of these animals into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The online admonition to "touch grass" to soothe your emotional state may be backed by science — at least in lab mice. A recent ...

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 human ...

A new study shows that silencing the medial prefrontal cortex accelerates problem-solving and strategy shifts in mice.

The prefrontal cortex, a brain region long associated with learning more flexible behaviors, can sometimes block the ability ...

The prefrontal cortex, a brain region long associated with learning more flexible behaviors, can sometimes block the ability ...

In the wild, a mouse or rat leads a precarious life. In the city, they dodge traps, poisons, and broom-wielding humans. In the countryside, they face owls, shotguns, and more poison. As Australia’s ...