For pet and lab mice, running wheels are a common feature, often used to encourage exercise. However, some scientists have argued that mice only run on these wheels because they live in cages and that ...

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 ...

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 ...

HHMI Investigator Hopi Hoekstra of Harvard University studies the development and evolution of stripe patterns in wild mice because these stripes may play an important role in helping the mice escape ...

Whichever team you fall into, you can probably agree that wild mice are unwelcome co-inhabitants. When they're not being kept as pets, mice can be problematic for homeowners as they gnaw wires ...

Although mice from some laboratory lines can survive as long as three years, free-living wild animals are likely to die much earlier from disease, competition, or predators. The usual structure of ...

In her letter to senators on the eve of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearing to become the country’s next health ...

Invasive mice are eating the island’s 29 avian species alive, but the NGO Mouse-Free Marion has a plan to eradicate them by ...

Singing possibly allows these mice to avoid injury and conserve energy, as aggressive physical encounters in the wild can be quite costly. What’s particularly striking is that these singing ...

Mice have a lively social life. They communicate mainly through sounds and smells. Depending on the food supply, wild mice live in differently sized family groups consisting of a dominant male, ...

leucopus as a whole. Firman says that the results are consistent with her findings in Australian wild mice. “There’s no evidence [in the Cells study] to suggest that . . . the mouse hook has something ...

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 ...