Q: You encourage everyone to find substitutes for pesticides. We want to find a substitute for rat poison. Do the ultrasonic pest repellers work? We have rats in our indoor swimming pool area. I do ...

Myocardial angiogenesis mediated by human vascular endothelial growth factor 165 (hVEGF 165) cDNA was promoted in rat myocardium using an in vivo-targeted gene delivery system known as ...

Listening to rats' ultrasonic vocalisations could help provide a method to measure the impact of potential refinements on rat welfare without needing to remove the animals from their home cage. The ...

In context: Rats are a fundamental specimen for scientific study. They share a surprising number of genetic traits with humans, which makes them ideal for medical research. They are also social ...