When it comes to rodent bites, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that bites are rare; however, the bad news is that they are serious. A bite from a mouse or rat can transmit a variety ...

Scientists have engineered a hybrid mouse with a gene that predates all animal life. The team replaced a single gene in the mouse stem cells with a version from an ancient, single-celled ancestor, and ...

(CNN) — Scientists have created a mouse embryo that’s part human — 4% to be exact. The hybrid is what scientists call a human-animal chimera, a single organism that’s made up of two different sets of ...

Noel McDavid is a writer, a reader, and an avid retro gamer. She loves Spyro the Dragon and most Legend of Zelda titles, along with Crash Bandicoot and other classics. McDavid writes for several sites ...

Rodney Holbrook, from Builth Wells in central Wales, was perplexed having regularly discovered things he’d used the day before were mysteriously tidied after he’d gone to bed. Keen to solve the puzzle ...

Only ten States (in the Southeast) are comparatively free from mice. In the other 38 States, 1,000 mice allowed to run on the 65 million acres of hay raised per year would chew up 30 million dollars ...

Growing human organs in other animals is a small step closer to reality. Injecting human stem cells into pig and cattle embryos created embryos that incorporate a small number of human cells, ...

Enricko Ozoa is a lover of video games of just about every genre. His particular love for the MOBA and action-adventure genre shows with the 10,000 hours he has on Dota 2 and his ability to beat ...

Current guidelines pertaining to the housing of laboratory animals express caging standards for rodents in terms of minimum floor space and minimum height, relative to the body weight of the animal.

Inmates of the Chicago Industrial Home for Children at Woodstock were convinced last fortnight that a canary was loose somewhere in the building. Day after day they heard it chirp and trill. Day after ...

A NARROW conveyor belt runs between a lorry and a set of pallets stacked ten-high with shoebox-sized containers. Inside each of them is a clutch of mice ready for dispatch to some distant laboratory, ...