Many people who work in laboratory rodent breeding facilities believe that disrupting certain sensitive rodent lines will result in increased breeding failures and loss of newborn pups. To evaluate ...

The Jackson Laboratory, a nonprofit biomedical research institution in Bar Harbor, has developed a high-tech system for monitoring mice the lab uses to study human disease. The lab has partnered with ...

Mice and rats are the most common lab animals. That's why some influential new guidelines on how to house mother rodents and their babies have... Scientists do experiments with millions of rats and ...

As biomedical research becomes an increasingly global venture, the need to transport animals—especially genetically engineered mice—increases. Not only do breeders ship animals to research ...

Providing environmental enrichment should improve their welfare, and a consequence of this might be a reduction in the animal's motivation to leave an enriched cage. I examined this possibility by ...

NORTH SIOUX CITY -- A California-based manufacturer of disposable rodent cages for laboratory research has purchased two buildings on the former Gateway campus in North Sioux City.

Aggression in group-housed laboratory mice is a serious animal welfare concern. Further understanding of the causes of mouse aggression could have a significant impact on a large number of laboratory ...