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 ...

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

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

When postdoctoral researcher Matthew Zipple releases lab mice into a large, enclosed field just off Cornell's campus, something remarkable happens. The mice, which have only ever lived in a cage a ...

The first rule of fight club is "you do not talk about fight club," but the first rule of mouse fight club seems to be "publish your results in Nature." A team of Princeton neuroscientists recently ...

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Scientists stress out lab mice, a lot. Inducing chronic stress and anxiety in these furry critters is how scientists explore the bodily and cognitive effects of stress and discover anti-anxiety ...

Researchers have created genome-wide, high-resolution genetic maps of 100 inbred mouse strains. Compared with wild-derived strains, most of today's classical lab strains have limited genetic diversity ...

A new study finds that lab mice perform a suite of likely innate behaviors towards unconscious mice that help them revive faster. When we humans encounter an unconscious person, we might spring into ...