For generations, laboratory mice have lived and died under fluorescent lights, their world reduced to plastic cages and ...

When scientists opened the doors of a research facility and let carefully bred lab mice loose into a fenced field, they ...

Laboratory mice are deliberately making mistakes during experiments and annoying the scientists watching them. The humble lab mouse has been used in tests for hundreds of years, but it seems like the ...

A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new ...

It’s a controversial research standard that has long been criticized by animal rights activists. Even some in the scientific community argue they deserve better treatment, much like their human ...

Mice living in cold laboratories are skewing the results of thousands of scientific studies That's according to new research that's found lab mice all over the world are experiencing chronic stress.

And while that might just sound like a custom-built lead-in to a 1970s comedy routine, it's actually a pretty serious problem for science. Because it might mean that an implicit bias has been built ...

Laboratory mice may not be effective models for studying immune responses to disease. The research, published in Nature Communications, reveals limitations of laboratory mice as immunological models.

Scientists eliminated HIV from the entire genome of lab mice for the first time ever using a slow-acting drug and gene-editing. The feat, revealed in a publication today, suggests this two-pronged ...

Using animals to test drugs destined for humans is controversial, with critics arguing there are other ways to ensure new medicines are safe and effective. But the scientists who carry out the ...