President Joe Biden’s former director of the National Institutes of Health said that the institutes never funded “transgender” mice experiments despite a litany of NIH projects detailing just such ...

Mice have been shown to experience an artificial sense of limb ownership, similar to the famous "rubber-hand illusion" in humans. "The rubber hand illusion is a staple of the study of body ...

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 ...

On Feb. 6, 2025, Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina claimed during a House of Representatives oversight subcommittee meeting that the government had spent $10 million of taxpayer money ...

Testing mice for depression is challenging. “You can’t put a mouse on a psychiatrist’s couch and ask it how it’s feeling,” said Sarah Bailey, who heads the pharmacology group at the University of Bath ...

Endogenous lithium levels were lower in the prefrontal cortex of people with Alzheimer's and mild cognitive impairment. Lithium depletion in mouse models led to increased amyloid and accelerated ...

Mice have remained the focal point for life sciences research for the past several decades. Their universality in biomedicine lies in the fact that they present unparalleled insights into human ...