For generations, laboratory mice have lived and died under fluorescent lights, their world reduced to plastic cages and standardized pellets. When researchers finally moved some of these animals into ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – In a new study, Cornell University researchers rewilded multiple cohorts of lab mice over two years and found that their fear response in a classic assay used to assess anxiety was ...

Mice that experience the real world may be better models for human mental health conditions, compared with lab mice that ...

Mice are used in various research experiments, but in recent years, it has been pointed out that 'the environment in which mice are raised in experiments can change the results of research.' A ...

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 ...

When scientists opened the doors of a research facility and let carefully bred lab mice loose into a fenced field, they expected skittish, fragile animals to struggle. Instead, the mice rapidly shed ...

New research suggests that the commonly used ‘lab mouse’ may display behaviors entirely distinct from their wild-derived counterparts, prompting new considerations for the future of animal-based ...

Paralyzing fear might be the key to keeping patients alive, a study of mice suggests, according to a team of researchers at Kansai Medical University. Mice exposed to the “smell of fear” were more ...