For generations, laboratory mice have lived and died under fluorescent lights, their world reduced to plastic cages and ...

When postdoctoral researcher Matthew Zipple releases lab mice into a large, enclosed field just off Cornell's campus, something remarkable happens.

When laboratory mice step out of their plastic cages and into real soil, their behavior changes so dramatically that it ...

To measure mouse fear and anxiety, scientists use a classic tool called the “elevated plus maze.” It looks just like it ...

A cage containing albino laboratory mice was one of more than 50 containers of the rodents stacked on shelves inside a clandestine lab discovered in a warehouse in downtown Reedley in December 2022.

The Jackson Laboratory, a nonprofit biomedical research institution in Bar Harbor, has developed a high-tech system for monitoring mice the lab uses to study human disease. The lab has partnered with ...

Home cage aggression in group-housed male mice is a major welfare concern and may compromise animal research. Conventional cages prevent flight or retreat from sight, increasing the risk that ...

The US National Library of Medicine (NLM) - National Institutes of Health (NIH) states that appropriate science and animal care operate simultaneously. A troubled or unwell animal does not yield the ...

The objective of this project was to introduce tunnel handling—a non-aversive alternative to tail handling—to mice during husbandry and routine handling procedures across a large facility with ...

Mice will never be people, of course, so we cannot say whether the results of this and any follow-up experiments would directly apply to us. —The Times, April 11, 2018. Mice do not, so far as we know, ...