When laboratory mice step out of their plastic cages and into real soil, their behavior changes so dramatically that it forces a rethink of what stress, health and even “normal” really mean. The story ...

When scientists opened the doors of a research facility and let carefully bred lab mice loose into a fenced field, they expected skittish, fragile animals to struggle. Instead, the mice rapidly shed ...

Experimental trials of psychedelic drugs in both humans and animals have produced conflicting results, creating doubts about ...

Scientists have advanced human-animal chimera research by successfully growing human cells within the organs of mice. This development could bring experts closer to the goal of custom-growing human ...

A five-laboratory collaboration found that psilocybin acutely increased anxiety-like behavior and reduced fear expression in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A map of estimated nerve-fiber pathways in the brain of an experimental "xenocortical" mouse that was bioengineered to lack 98% of ...

A landmark multi-institution collaboration has found no reproducible lasting behavioural changes in mice 24 hours after a ...

Numerous potential treatments for neurological conditions, including autism spectrum disorders, have worked well in lab mice but then disappointed in humans. What would help is a noninvasive, ...