A group of researchers in Japan says an experiment using mice has confirmed that a certain strain of gut bacteria improves ...

Psilocybin has slowed down the aging process in cells and mice. It may be able to scale up to humans and help slow diseases ...

In a stunning new study, geneticists in Japan have revealed how injecting a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal gene into mice has led to profound changes in their skeletal structure. This experiment, ...

After clinical death, some of your cells refuse to quit, or even attempt to reconfigure into strange, emergent forms.

In the experiment, head-fixed mice viewed a realistic, 3D-printed replica of their forelimb while their actual limb was hidden and simultaneously stroked with a brush in either a synchronous or ...

Watching others eat tasty foods may lead to overeating, even in the absence of hunger, according to a new mouse study being ...

A Japanese scientist hopes freeze-dried mouse sperm 250 miles above Earth could save humankind.

Tartrazine, a dye used in making Doritos, has a light-absorbing quality that researchers used to apply to mice so they could see through the skin.

Adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP) is a progressive neurological disease with an ...

In perhaps the oddest twist of all, as early as the 1960s, Calhoun’s studies of mice and rats led him to devote a good deal of the later years of his career to working on the creation of a human ...

A study on the brains of mice has identified a neurological relay race unfolding at meal time, dividing activity into four separate phases that ensure the animals don't eat too much or too little ...