“It all started from an accidental observation,” says Li Zhang, a systems neuroscientist at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC). While conducting laboratory ...

Oxytocin, a hormone linked to bonding behaviors, might also help mice modulate their pregnancies. Someday, this line of ...

Most Americans have no idea their taxes are regularly being used to torture animals, but your taxes are being used to torture puppies and turn mice transgender.

New active ingredients such as antibodies are usually tested individually in laboratory animals. Researchers at UZH have now ...

Ecologists say the rare and cryptic smoky mouse is proving it can survive on its own in the state's south, where a ...

The biotech company Colossal Biosciences has long aspired to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, which roamed the Northern ...

By revealing for the first time what happens in the brain when an animal makes a mistake, Johns Hopkins University ...

Scientists at Colossal Biosciences have achieved a milestone to resurrecting the woolly mammoth: laboratory mice with thick, ...

Colossal Biosciences has focused on identifying key traits of extinct animals by studying ancient DNA, with a goal to genetically "engineer them into living animals," said CEO Ben Lamm.

The little rodents' genes were edited to exhibit traits associated with a woolly mammoth genome—including fluffy, dirty-blonde fur.

Biotech company Colossal Biosciences unveiled plans in 2021 to revive the woolly mammoth - and later the dodo bird.

Rob Taft, a principal scientist at The Jackson Laboratory, a biomedical research institution that helped pioneer humanized lab mice, said via email that the woolly mouse was an "innovative extension ...