“A mouse and a rat are as different as a housecat and a mountain lion,” says Bobby Corrigan, Ph.D., an urban rodentologist based in New York City. “Rats and mice are both rodents, ...

If so, you likely have a rat or mouse in the house. To address this annoying issue properly, you’ll need to find out which critter is invading your home. From a distance, ...

Rie Natsume and her collaborators have recently developed an innovative and cost-effective method for generating rats that ...

If there’s one thing that rats and mice share, it’s their cuteness. They also have similar physical features, such as huge ...

Rat-grown mouse pancreases help reverse diabetes in mice. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 01 / 170125145818.htm. Stanford University Medical Center.

With an injection of rat cells, mouse brains that were genetically engineered to be unable to smell could detect odors and even track down an Oreo cookie stash. Skip to main content.

This hybrid mouse-rat smell system can help scientists understand how flexible brains can be. Ben Throesch In other experiments, mice put rat cells to good use by sniffing out buried cookies .

In 2010, Nakauchi and his colleagues used such cells to grow a rat pancreas in a mouse. However, the organ grew to only the size of a normal mouse pancreas, ...