Each time Matthew Zipple, a behavioral ecologist at Cornell University, releases a mouse that was born and raised in a ...

When scientists opened the doors of a research facility and let carefully bred lab mice loose into a fenced field, they ...

The millions of mice used in labs are extremely important for medical research. But for them, life is almost always miserable. Imagine spending your entire life in a shoebox-sized cell, with stagnant ...

A new study shows lab mice become less anxious after living outdoors, even reversing existing fear in just one week.

The study, which was recently published in Current Biology, mentioned that the mice were placed in an elevated plus maze (EPM), a standard tool for measuring anxiety in mice. It has two arms - an ...

It’s a controversial research standard that has long been criticized by animal rights activists. Even some in the scientific community argue they deserve better treatment, much like their human ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – In a new study, Cornell University researchers rewilded multiple cohorts of lab mice over two years and found that their fear response in a classic assay used to assess anxiety was ...