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An experiment in lab mice found that certain human gut bacteria can absorb PFAS, commonly called "forever chemicals," until ...
Masahito Ikawa and his team on Wednesday said that they had developed a method of culturing fragments of uterine tissue from mice in laboratory containers to achieve embryo implantation. The team also ...
Study in mice suggests potential for probiotic treatment. Although previous research has linked pesticide exposure to harmful effects on gut microbes, a new study is the first to chart how specific ...
A new book offers a valuable discussion of the double bind in which many researchers and lab technicians find themselves: having to care for animals who will then be killed.
Approximately three quarters of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development — representing 1,000 ...
Now, he and his colleagues show that unconscious mice elicit a suite of behaviors from cage mates that seem to speed recovery from anesthesia. Oxytocin neurons, which underlie helping behaviors in ...
Research led by the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing has discovered that switching on a single dormant ...
Mice who were created by scientists using the genetics of two biological fathers have gone on to have their own offspring ...
Unlike the brain and spinal cord, peripheral nerve cells, whose long extensions reach the skin and internal organs, are ...
The agency is cutting animal testing of chemicals. Some scientists are concerned, but in the meantime the rats (and zebra ...