Scientists from Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands filmed wild mice using an outdoor wheel for three years to analyse their behaviour They found the behaviour is natural even if ...

The average litter size has been found to vary from as few as three pups to as many as nine. Although mice from some laboratory lines can survive as long as three years, free-living wild animals are ...

In captivity too, the rodents need room for movement and ways to hide and build nests. Mice have a lively social life. They communicate mainly through sounds and smells. Depending on the food supply, ...

Much like the protagonists of The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, a real-life genus of agile, closely related North American wild mice displays strikingly diverse behaviors. Mice of the genus ...

How animal color patterns develop and evolve is a longstanding question in developmental biology. HHMI Investigator Hopi Hoekstra of Harvard University studies the development and evolution of stripe ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. To test whether nuclear cloning could be used to generate transgenic mice with targeted insertions, we integrated a tet-transactivator ...

A Wild Mouse roller coaster (also Mad Mouse or Crazy Mouse) is a type of roller coaster characterized by small cars that seat four people or fewer and ride on top of the track, taking tight ...

EBP1 is low in Alzheimer’s disease brains, hinting at human relevance. “Our study suggests that … preservation of functional EBP1 could be a therapeutic strategy for AD,” the authors noted. The ...