Dusty barns, gleaming stables, and damp basements. These are all places where you might find a house mouse—or a member of my research team. I’m an evolutionary biologist, and my lab at Drexel ...
One of Aesop’s fables tells of two cousin mice, one from the country and the other from the city. Though related, their habits and preferences are remarkably different. The country mouse enjoys simple ...
New research suggests that the commonly used ‘lab mouse’ may display behaviors entirely distinct from their wild-derived counterparts, prompting new considerations for the future of animal-based ...
When scientists opened the doors of a research facility and let carefully bred lab mice loose into a fenced field, they ...
The great majority of how we understand human disease, and attempt to cure it, derives from mice genetically fashioned to be prolific breeders, docile and easy to handle – all qualities that have made ...
In a preprint* research paper recently uploaded to the bioRxiv server, researchers at Washington University investigated how the exposome can mediate immune function in house mice, one of the most ...