The laser-activated mice would chase down just about anything, including the bug-like toy, chips of wood, bottle caps and live crickets. Advertisement.

Despite how cute they are, mice aren't a pest you want in your house, partially because they're smarter than you think and ...

Later, when the male mice were hanging out in a particular corner, the researchers shone blue light to reactivate the same neurons that had just learned from that bad (or good) experience.

Scientists used optogenetics to raise the heartbeat of a mouse, making it anxious. ... One of the biggest signals, Deisseroth says, came from the posterior insula (SN: 4/25/16).

Sah and his colleagues showed that the compound SN-401 improved multiple aspects of metabolic syndrome in two groups of mice that each developed diabetes from different causes, one because of a ...

In addition, SN-011 was not only well tolerated, but also shown to ameliorate autoimmune pathology and significantly prevent death in Trex1-deficient mice. In these mice, "severe multiorgan ...

SN 28127 significantly reduced body weight of C3H/HeN mice and transiently increased food and water intake. SN 28127 (4.21 μmol kg −1 in 42% DMSO) reduced mouse body weight starting in the ...

Oxytocin, a hormone previously implicated in mammalian sexual and maternal behavior, may play a role in social recognition in mice. Skip to content Subscribe or renew today ...

Lab mice will try to revive their knocked-out friends, study reveals A new study finds that lab mice perform a suite of likely innate behaviors towards unconscious mice that help them revive faster.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Li Zhang, professor of physiology and neuroscience at USC's Keck School of Medicine, how mice perform first aid on each other.