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

City officials, fearing that typhus would be spread by rats carrying fleas, enlisted the help of Calhoun, who turned city ...

A Soviet zoologist with a passion for long-extinct mammals set out to reinvigorate the landscape of the Caucasus in the 20th ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’ve found it amusing to see how far we’ve strayed from my lab practices with this project. Rats typically prefer dirt, ...

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 ...

When their tails wag with delight when you come home or they snuggle into you on the couch, it’s hard not to feel grateful to ...

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

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 ...