Lab mice that 'touch grass' are less anxious — and that highlights a big problem in rodent research

Mice that experience the real world may be better models for human mental health conditions, compared with lab mice that ...
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Update of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...
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Labs Size Up New Guidelines For Rodent Cages

Mice and rats are the most common lab animals. That's why some influential new guidelines on how to house mother rodents and their babies have... Labs Size Up New Guidelines For Rodent Cages ...
Psychology Today

Lab Mice: Deep Reflections on Their Use in Invasive Research

A good deal of scientific research shows that mice and rats are bright, sentient, and deep emotional rodents. Yet they aren't even considered to be "animals" in the United States federal Animal ...
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AnthroTek's silicone rats could cut needless animal testing in labs

Cambridge startup AnthroTek has developed hyper-realistic silicone replicas of lab rats using 3D modelling and 3D-printed ...
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Update of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals

A respected resource for decades, the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals has been updated by a committee of experts, taking into consideration input from the scientific and laboratory ...