Mechanistic discrepancies between species highlights the limitations of mouse models in advancing STING inhibition drugs for various diseases.

Florida’s Clearwater Marine Aquarium knows just how beloved these large rodents are; the water-loving animals are the ...

Last year, ecologists placed trail cameras around Kosciuszko National Park in New South Wales, Australia. According to ...

In the Andes Mountains of northern Peru, a long-tailed mammal with a “facial mask” moved through the undergrowth. Suddenly, ...

Written from the perspective of a white-footed mouse, Joanne Ryder's Mouse Tail Moon, illus. by Maggie Kneen, presents 18 poems that follow the creature's adventures from dusk in ""Sunberry"" to ...

The role of mouse tails in response to external and self-generated balance perturbations on the roll plane. Journal of Experimental Biology, 2024; 227 (21) DOI: 10.1242/jeb.247552 ...

Why do mice have tails? The answer to this is not as simple as you might think. New research from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has shown that there’s more to the humble ...

"Mice are ubiquitous in neuroscience because of their genetic, biological and behavioral similarity to us, and yet the role of their characteristic tail has remained elusive," explains Dr ...

The tail suspension test (TST), a sibling of the FST, was developed in 1985 and requires that a mouse be suspended by its tail in a small chamber so that it can neither escape nor hold on to a ...

In contrast, house mice are smaller, with their body and tail length ranging from 5.5 to 7.5 inches (13.97 to 19.05 centimetres).