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Lab mice that 'touch grass' are less anxious — and that highlights a big problem in rodent research
The online admonition to "touch grass" to soothe your emotional state may be backed by science — at least in lab mice. A recent study finds that mice that live outside are less anxious than those that ...
When laboratory mice step out of their plastic cages and into real soil, their behavior changes so dramatically that it forces a rethink of what stress, health and even “normal” really mean. The story ...
When we humans encounter an unconscious person, we might spring into action and try to revive them. Well, a new study in the journal Science hints that lab mice might do something similar. NPR's ...
Temperature bias Tumours in lab mice grow faster than normal because of the cool temperatures the animals are kept at, and this could be giving misleading results in cancer drug tests, say US ...
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