A new book offers a valuable discussion of the double bind in which many researchers and lab technicians find themselves: having to care for animals who will then be killed.

Nature Medicine - A historical perspective on leptin. Because the ob/ob and db/db mutant mice were on different genetic backgrounds, my first parabiosis experiment involved the joining of the db ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Mice accidentally introduced to a remote island near Antarctica 200 years ago are breeding out of control because of climate change, and they are eating seabirds ...

Recently, some reports have indicated a delay in the onset of pathology in mixed-background PS19 mice. This delay has been reported in mice maintained at the University of Pennsylvania (e.g. Zhang et ...