On-stage villains aren't the only vermin at the Metropolitan Opera.
Female canaries adore a good old-fashioned love song that abides by rigid musical rules. Mature males always follow the rules. Curiously, young males will go against convention — and rock out to tunes that would not impress the ladies.
Eight baby mice were found aboard a United Airlines flight from Washington but tests showed they were free of dangerous viruses, the Chinese government said Thursday.
A group of researchers has discovered a mechanism that helps protect deer mice from hantavirus even though the rodents carry the life-threatening disease.
At the general store on Canada Lake in the southern Adirondacks, mice were the talk of the town this summer. With winter closing in, people can expect to keep hearing the skritch of tiny feet as the destructive rodents move indoors.
Fred Risinger never gives his eastern Idaho bar patrons a last call — but then his customers are mice. Some are teetotalers who eschew the mouse-sized shots of alcohol they can obtain at any time simply by pressing a lever in their cage. Others Risinger describes as "your wine with dinner mice."
Simple surgery can turn a sexually passive female mouse into a rampant sex beast. The removal of an odour-sensing organ causes female mice to pursue and mount mice of either sex, and also show masculine mating behaviours such as pelvic thrusts.
People living in communities surrounding a large shallow lake have been overrun by field mice after floodwaters drove the rodents out of islands on the lake, state media reported Monday.
A mouse drinks a drop of soymilk as a reward for correctly identifying which one of three illuminated panels is different from the other two (Image: Gerald Jacobs)
People with Down’s syndrome may be able to improve their memory by taking a supplement of Ginkgo tree extract, according to a promising mouse study.
The newly discovered “superhighway” (red tube) connects the ventricles (shown in light purple in the middle of the brain) with the tiny olfactory bulb (bottom left) (Image: Jonathan Westin)
A novel treatment can rescue the brain function of mice afflicted with a form of mad cow disease, a new study suggests.
In a novel experiment, moderate doses of carbon monoxide protected against the symptoms of multiple sclerosis in mice.
Female mice exposed to a common chemical found in plastics while in the womb develop abnormal eggs, according to a new study. Based on this finding, researchers speculate that the chemical, bisphenol A, might increase the risk of spontaneous abortion and genetic disorders in humans, such as Down's syndrome.
High doses of a compound found naturally in grape skins and red wine can improve muscle endurance in mice, and the compound also keeps them slim, a new study shows.
A newly developed vaccine might serve as a useful weapon against the drug-resistant superbug MRSA, researchers say. Tests in mice have shown that the vaccine can protect against multiple types of MRSA, which can cause fatal infections in humans.
Vaccines have treated infectious prions in mice, raising hopes of a cure for the deadly human version of “mad cow disease”.
Proteins taken from the brains of Alzheimer’s patients and injected into the brains of genetically engineered mice trigger Alzheimer’s-like lesions in the mouse brains, researchers report.
A potential new drug against malaria has been identified, which has cured mice with a drug-resistant form of the disease.
A pioneering drug treatment has restored memory function in mice with Alzheimer’s disease.
Red wine may be much more potent than was thought in extending human lifespan, researchers say in a new report that is likely to give impetus to the rapidly growing search for longevity drugs.
Resveratrol, a naturally occurring compound found in red wine and some grapes, has shown to promote longevity by protecting the heart. The study was done on mice who were about the same age as a middle aged adult.
Agents in red wine, perhaps not limited to resveratrol, may contribute to longevity in ways similar to famine diets.
Art is deathless, the poets say. Unless it isn't.
Scientists at Schepens Eye Research Institute have discovered what chemical in the eye triggers the dormant capacity of certain non-neuronal cells to transform into progenitor cells, stem-like cells that can generate new retinal cells.
US scientists have managed to rid diabetic mice of the effects of the disease using a cocktail of drugs. The mice, who had type 1 diabetes, started producing their own insulin after taking a mixture of four drugs.
Using mice as models, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology traced some of the differences between humans and chimpanzees to differences in our diet.
Human ovaries have been grown inside mice at Cornell University.
Rather than flee or freeze when confronted with their feline enemy, the mice sniffed and even played with them, blissfully unaware of the potential dangers.
Mice have for the first time been cured of a severe blood disorder through treatment with stem cells created from tissue taken from their own tails.
Scientists have the first evidence that those "reprogrammed stem cells" that made headlines last month really have the potential to treat disease: They used skin from the tails of sick mice to cure the rodents of sickle cell anemia.
Scientists have reversed the effects of ageing on the skin of mice by blocking the action of a specific protein. In two-year old mice, Californian researchers found that they could rejuvenate skin to look more youthful.
Scientists have reversed the effects of ageing on the skin of mice by blocking the action of a specific protein. In two-year old mice, Californian researchers found that they could rejuvenate skin to look more youthful.
Mice carrying a gene which appears to make them invulnerable to cancer may hold the key to safer and more effective treatments for humans. The new breed, created with a more active "Par-4" gene, did not develop tumours, and even lived longer, said the journal Cancer Research.
Scientists have created cancer-resistant mice in a breakthrough that offers hope of a side effect-free treatment for the deadly disease.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Manhattan restaurant that unveiled a record-breaking $25,000 dessert last week has been forced to shut its doors temporarily due to an infestation of mice and cockroaches.
Previous study assumed that another set of genes that influence smell in vertebrates might be used by animals that identify each other through scent.
A genetically modified "supermouse" which can run twice as far as a normal rodent has been created by scientists working in the US. It also lives longer, and breeds later in life compared with its standard laboratory cousin.
Case Western Reserve University researchers have bred a line of abnormally strong and aggressive "mighty mice" (PEPCK-Cmus mice) that physically outperforms it's non-modified peers in every conceivable way. In fact, it can kick most human butts in several ways.
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All he does is put mice on a platform that buzzes at such a low frequency that some people cannot even feel it. The mice stand there for 15 minutes a day, five days a week.
After New York, the cities considered most at risk for rodent problems were Houston, Boston, Louisville, Ky., Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Chicago, El Paso, Tex., and Milwaukee.
The fact that cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug has motivated a great deal of research aimed at understanding how it produces its psychoactive effects.
Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) -- China is building a new Great Wall -- a relative miniature at 1 meter (3.3 feet) high -- to guard against hordes of pillaging mice.
Older houses are most vulnerable to rodents, but it's possible for them to crop up in just about any neighborhood. Here are some signs to look for to see if rodents are living in or around your house...