Teams of mountaineering mice are helping advance understanding into how evolutionary adaptation to localized conditions can enable a single species to thrive across diverse environments.

At that point, my lab started looking into how positive events — and anticipation for these events — shape neural functions.

Japan - November 06, 2024 Scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have unveiled a surprising ...

These "transposable elements," or jumping genes, can disrupt or enhance a gene's function upon insertion ... with inserting these same jumping genes into mice, and they found that the mice lost their ...

Scientists discovered a mechanoreceptor that triggers the distinctive shake-off behavior observed in mice when they become ...

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic gut inflammatory condition affecting the colon in humans. This study uses human samples as well as a mouse model of colitis induced by a chemical, DSS, to ...

Why do mice have tails? The answer to this is not as simple as you might think. Research has shown that there's more to the humble mouse tail than previously assumed. Using a novel experimental setup ...

A first healthy adults group has been dosed in an early clinical trial of an oral and myelin-protective treatment for all ...

Comparisons between humans, mice and macaques show both similarities and significant ... The next question was how this ...