After breeding and releasing almost 100 endangered Pacific pocket mice, researchers discovered mice reintroduced into Orange County's Laguna Coast Wilderness Park have started breeding on their own, ...

Since 1985, the products of genetic engineering and molecular discovery have quickened the pace at which biomedical research is conducted. At the same time, the mouse has become the most powerful ...

When hobbyist Chobei Zenya wrote The Breeding of Curious Varieties of the Mouse in 1787, he probably never imagined the impact that mouse breeding would eventually have on biomedical and genetic ...

The 2011 edition of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals includes new recommendations for the amount of floor space that should be provided to breeding mice. When pairs or trios of ...

The combination of bedding substrate and nesting material within the microenvironment of mice is an important consideration for animal care programs in regard to optimizing animal wellbeing. We used 3 ...

Perinatal mortality is a major issue in laboratory mouse breeding. We compared a counting method using daily checks (DAILY_CHECK) with a method combining daily checks with detailed video analyses to ...

A NARROW conveyor belt runs between a lorry and a set of pallets stacked ten-high with shoebox-sized containers. Inside each of them is a clutch of mice ready for dispatch to some distant laboratory, ...