It turns out that avoiding a fight might be as simple as changing the subject. A new study has revealed that male mice use a ...

Animal experiments are widely used to develop new ... Drug A killed all the rats, mice and dogs. Drug B killed all the dogs and rats. Drug C killed all the mice and rats. Drug D was taken by ...

Findings suggest that molecules made by gut bacteria are key for the beneficial effects of the ketogenic diet in MS models.

Why do mice have tails? The answer to this is not as simple as you might think. New research from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has shown that there’s more to the humble mouse ...

Fifteen years ago, researchers introduced the first two mouse models of autism, each carrying a genetic mutation linked to autism in humans. They claimed that these mice behaved like autistic humans, ...

Previously, the role of mice tails in maintaining balance was poorly understood and often overlooked in experiments. "While mice are crucial in neuroscience because of their likeness to us, our study ...

When mice with prostate cancer are given menadione, it interferes with the cancer’s survival processes. Trotman’s team ...

Cooler weather always brings a spike in visits from rodents. Mice, cute as they may be, chew through cords, gnaw into bags of food and leave droppings in cupboards and on counters and floors.

So how helpful have lab mice been in furthering our understanding of autism? Where should we be focusing our research efforts?