Subjecting laboratory animals to handling-induced stress can lead to variable experimental errors. Additionally, handling wild species may endanger laboratory staff and the animals themselves. To ...

Rat theilovirus is a commonly reported infection in research rat colonies. The author's institution experienced an outbreak of rat theilovirus in a breeding colony of unique outbred rats. To manage ...

Researchers in France have successfully cloned rats, overcoming a quirk in the rodent’s physiology to produce genetic duplicates for use in medical research. LED BY RESEARCHERS at the National ...

Rats were the first mammals to be domesticated for research purposes and yet despite being the 'workhorse' in many areas of biomedical research for decades, relatively little is known about their ...

NOTE: This release has been updated since its original posting. A large team of researchers, including a computer scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, has effectively completed the genome ...

How do we perceive music and sounds? This question is the basis of the research by the Language and Comparative Cognition Group (LCC) of the UPF Center for Brain and Cognition (CBC) published recently ...