Research led by the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing has discovered that switching on a single dormant ...

Mouse models are central to drug development, including treatments for neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's disease.

How does the brain store knowledge so that you actually remember what you have learned the next day or even later? To find ...

Males imprint their DNA by adding methyl modifications to it in a way that alters the activity of genes in order to promote ...

The first mice to be created from two fathers, a phenomenon known as androgenesis, have now produced healthy offspring for the first time. Researchers implanted two sperm in an egg with its nucleus ...

The study shows that mice born without a mother can not only survive but also grow up to have their own offspring, opening ...

Scientists achieved a breakthrough. They bred healthy, fertile mice using DNA from two sperm cells. This was done through ...

A new book offers a valuable discussion of the double bind in which many researchers and lab technicians find themselves: having to care for animals who will then be killed.

How do animals bounce back from sleep deprivation? Scientists found a subset of neurons in the mouse thalamus that repay this ...