Smell and touch are the earliest sensations ... a closer look at the effect of olfactory stimuli on the brains of newborn mice. To do this, the researchers delivered a pleasant odor to the ...

Newborn mice need to learn the smell of their moms' natural perfume to suckle and survive, according to new research. Previous studies on rabbits suggested that for mammal babies, a mom's ...

For newborn mice to suckle for the very first time and ... Nursing mouse pups must learn the smell of mom. The behavior is primed by the unavoidable experience of the amniotic fluid before birth ...

And apparently, it’s when baby mice can learn not to run from the smell of cats. It probably helped that Voznessenskaya and her team fed the mice milk while exposing them to the cat urine smell.

Newborn female mice that sniff odours from ... We have known since the 1970s that getting young female mice to smell older females’ urine causes them to reach puberty later.

They found that with gene therapy, newborn mice were better at suckling and feeding – behaviors associated with smell and olfactory function in mice. ORPK mice are usually one-quarter the size ...

Scientists investigating what keeps lungs from overinflating can quit holding their breath. Experiments in mice have identified a protein that senses when the lungs are full of air. This protein ...

This week, a study in Neuron suggests that mice may also have a rudimentary sense of self. When the scientists dabbed ... they needed far more training and visual cues than a human baby. But to the ...

The baby mice never met their father, but those sired by a blossom-hating dad had more acetophenone smell receptors. Compared to pups born of other dads, most were also agitated when acetophenone ...

Smell and touch are the earliest sensations ... a closer look at the effect of olfactory stimuli on the brains of newborn mice. To do this, the researchers delivered a pleasant odor to the ...