Mice have a strong preference to nest away from their own waste, and mice in laboratories should be housed in a system of cages that allows them to segregate space into clean and dirty areas, ...

(Barley) "Cage flooding can be a serious problem in ventilated caging systems with automatic watering for mice. We have purchased Bio-Serv tunnels that hang off the top of the cage plus Tecniplast ...

Most of the mice held at the Max Planck Institutes come from the Institutes’ own breeding programmes, though some are also obtained from professional breeders of lab animals. Trained animal keepers ...

Mice love kitchens, because they're warm with ample access to food and water. However, there's a hack you can use to deter ...

To overcome these problems, researchers are turning more to automated systems that monitor mice in their home cages, where they are least stressed. This improves the animals’ welfare ...

Scientists stress out lab mice, a lot. Inducing chronic stress and anxiety in these furry critters is how scientists explore ...

Those tiny switches inside your mouse may be rated for 50 million clicks ... add a capacitor and remove the SMD LEDs. [Bin Sun] says this is an ongoing project. He’s gotten a handful of beta ...

CT scan of normal rib cage (left) and rib cage (right) of mutated animal lacking beta catenin in stromal cells. Arrowheads point to fractures. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible ...

In one experiment, Stowers painted the backs of male mice with urine and introduced them into the cages of knockout mice. The knockout mice failed to show aggression toward their new cage mates. “It ...

Cooler weather always brings a spike in visits from rodents. Mice, cute as they may be, chew through cords, gnaw into bags of food and leave droppings in cupboards and on counters and floors.

“The clear carelessness which allowed these 40 monkeys to escape endangered not only the safety of the animals, but also put ...