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 ...

Why do mice ... tails, the researchers also developed a new experimental setup for assessing mouse balance. The previous standard is a beam-walking test, where mice are tasked with crossing a 1cm wide ...

Caption Tracking and modeling mouse movements during the platform walking task. Ipsilateral movements (IL) refer to the tail being on the same side as the tilt direction, while contralateral (CL ...

Unusual variations in the cellular protein factory can skew development, help cancer spread and more. But ribosome variety may also play biological roles, scientists say.