When laboratory mice step out of their plastic cages and into real soil, their behavior changes so dramatically that it forces a rethink of what stress, health and even “normal” really mean. The story ...

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 ...

A cage containing albino laboratory mice was one of more than 50 containers of the rodents stacked on shelves inside a clandestine lab discovered in a warehouse in downtown Reedley in December 2022.

Mice that experience the real world may be better models for human mental health conditions, compared with lab mice that never leave their cages, a study hints. When you purchase through links on our ...

The US National Library of Medicine (NLM) - National Institutes of Health (NIH) states that appropriate science and animal care operate simultaneously. A troubled or unwell animal does not yield the ...

Institutions that receive Public Health Service (PHS) funding and conduct research using live vertebrate animals are required by law to have an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) that ...