With millions of mice and rats in US labs alone, scientists can learn a lot of information from their scurrying test subjects ...

Authorities say 43 monkeys bred for medical research that escaped a compound in South Carolina have been spotted in the woods ...

Breeders routinely use radiation or chemical ... of feeding genetically engineered and non-engineered potatoes to laboratory rats. Pusztai claimed to show that feeding them potatoes that were ...

Some of the rats in the experiment had been raised in a lab, while others lived in "enriched environments" - that is, they had more natural habitats. The rats raised in "enriched environments ...

They grow rapidly and are able to breed when four months old ... Partial albinos occasionally show up; the tame white rat, which is used as a laboratory animal and sometimes kept as a pet ...

a research scientist at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. For example, if researchers create their rats in house with the ZFNs, they can only breed 500 rats before having to apply to ...

boxes are available in single- and dual-compartment varieties. Figure 2: Disposable shipping containers made of crush-proof cardboard, provide an economical means of shipping laboratory rodents.

"Dogs are very attentive to and responsive to us," Alexandra Horowitz, head of the Dog Cognition Lab at Columbia ... Coren's intelligent dog breeds ranking. It has a curious, clever and confident ...

Edinburgh people have become lab rats for so many hare-brained schemes ─ costly, unpopular and often downright dangerous ideas which no-one voted for, imposed under the guise of progress.

One of them came after me with a needle the length of a turkey baster … I didn’t want to believe that I was a lab rat being experimented on. But after a while, I just couldn’t deny it ...

A compelling biography about a groundbreaking scientist and his controversial work, using rodent cities to examine the ...

The other varieties of the animal can be found farther south ... We almost had lab raccoons instead of lab rats. In the early 20th century, raccoons were poised to become the go-to model for animal ...