If you inject a person with a bolus of bacteria, she might get a fever. Her heart rate could go up, and her breathing might start to quicken. Left unchecked, there’s a chance her body would succumb to ...

“Lab mice are easy to work with and breed, relatively cheap and there are powerful genetic models, behavioral paradigms and sequenced genomes at our disposal,” Stephen Liberles, a cell biologist at ...

Scientists coaxed mouse stem cells to grow into synthetic embryos that began developing hearts and brains, just like the real thing. "This has been the dream of our community for years and [a] major ...

If you want to study a mouse's natural behaviour, then perhaps it isn't best to grab the animal and place it in a setting where it's required to perform a certain task at a certain time. That's the ...

According to a study published Thursday in the journal Cell, scientists have developed a chemical treatment that turns lab mice transparent. ... It takes roughly two days to make a mouse’s organs ...