The sorry state of a California jail, with mice falling on eating tables and mould growths overlaying the partitions, has prompted inmates to sue the administration. Legal professionals say it's a part of a systemic infrastructure ...

Songs of musical rodents might supply insights into human conversationIn the understory of Central American cloud forests, musical mice trill songs to 1 one other. Now a examine of the charismatic creatures reveals how their brains orchestrate these rapid-fire duets. The outcomes, printed within the March 1 Science, present that ...

A phthalate discovered in lots of plastic and private care merchandise could lower fertility in feminine mice, a brand new examine discovered. Researchers discovered that giving feminine mice oral doses of the phthalate DiNP for 10 days disrupted their estrus cycles, reducing their skill to grow to be pregnant for ...

Analysis in mice finds a brand new molecular mechanism that's important for maturation of mind operate and could also be used to revive plasticity in aged brains. Not like earlier analysis that broadly manipulated mind plasticity and affected the complete mind, this work targets for the primary time a selected ...

A whole bunch of latest genes linked to blindness and different imaginative and prescient problems have been recognized in a display screen of mouse strains. Many of those genes are probably essential in human imaginative and prescient and the outcomes may assist establish new causes of hereditary blindness in sufferers. ...

A protein present in therapeutic muscular tissues of youthful mice helps older animals bounce again from damage.

Scientists recommend that being raised communally makes mice extra aggressive once they're older. It's well-known that in lots of animals, together with people, early-life experiences have long-lasting results on the event of behaviors later in life. Researchers have investigated the results of communal rearing on aggressive and exploratory behaviors in ...

For adults over age 65, surgical problems can dampen not solely their bodily well being but additionally their psychological sharpness, with greater than half of high-risk circumstances declining into delirium. New analysis exhibits a present therapy for seizures also can reverse mind irritation, reminiscent of irritation after surgical procedure, and ...

The fossils of two extinct mice species have been found in caves in tropical Queensland by scientists monitoring surroundings adjustments.

In an surprising analysis discovering infections with the intestinal parasite, Cryptosporidium parvum, worsened in mice that had been given a probiotic.