President Joe Biden’s former director of the National Institutes of Health said that the institutes never funded “transgender” mice experiments despite a litany of NIH projects detailing just such ...

Anxiety is often described as a whole‑brain problem, but a series of mouse experiments suggests that, in some cases, a single misfiring circuit can tip the balance between calm and fear. By nudging ...

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 ...

On Feb. 6, 2025, Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina claimed during a House of Representatives oversight subcommittee meeting that the government had spent $10 million of taxpayer money ...

Mice have been shown to experience an artificial sense of limb ownership, similar to the famous "rubber-hand illusion" in humans. "The rubber hand illusion is a staple of the study of body ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Calling out the “Fake News losers at CNN” who “immediately tried to fact-check it,” ...

In a lab far from the woolly mammoth’s icy plains, researchers from Colossal Biosciences have successfully brought a tiny “woolly mouse” to life. Here’s what it could mean for de-extinction. A tiny, ...