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There is one specific task that stress researchers who conduct animal experiments need to be particularly skilled at. This ...

Could we pack the dementia-fighting benefits of exercise into a pill? An intriguing mouse study conducted by USC scientists ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich are utilising artificial intelligence to analyse the behaviour of laboratory mice more efficiently and reduce the number of ...

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 ...

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With millions of mice and rats in US labs alone, scientists can learn a lot of information from their scurrying test subjects. These animals may be small, but their contribution to current research is ...

Teams of mountaineering mice have shown how species adapt to localized conditions in order to thrive across diverse environments.