Everything Wrong with Mouse Studies (Kinda)
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“These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension…
“These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension…
“These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension…
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Let’s face it: the nature of behavior itself is inherently variable, whether it’s the heterogeneous socializing behavior of…
A Tilted Axis: Maladaptive Inflammation and HPA Axis Dysfunction Contribute to Consequences of TBI, A Tilted Axis…
A Tilted Axis: Maladaptive Inflammation and HPA Axis Dysfunction Contribute to Consequences of TBI, A Tilted Axis…
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Medicine Needs More Research On Female Animals, NIH…
A bias toward using male lab animals and tissue samples from males may be limiting the effectiveness of medical research…
Last week, a study published in Nature revealed that lab mice react differently to their male and female researchers: Mice, and…
An article by Alla Katsnelson in Nature (28 April; doi:10.1038/nature.2014.15106; currently free) reports on new results from…
Mice and rats stressed by male experimenters; reaction may skew research findings. Scientists’ inability to replicate research…
The sense of smell is often unfairly overlooked, but it is becoming more and more obvious that it’s essential for a huge number…
We now have definitive proof that the propensity of womankind to postpone sex due to a headache is of evolutionary origin!
When I was a lab scientist working with mice, I spent hours controlling variables. I stood on precarious chairs to tape tarps…
Here's a roundup of five medical studies published this week that might give you new insights into your health, mind and body.
A new study casts doubt on decades of research. Read more of the article here.
The following study out of McGill, which was recently published in Nature Methods will surely blow your mind. Not only that…
Scientists’ inability to replicate research findings using mice and rats has contributed to...
The scent of human men stresses out mice and rats, which changes their pain responses and could affect experimental results.
Image: Maggie Bartlett, NHGRI.This week, a paper published in Nature Methods found that there is a serious complicating factor…
Men can stress out rodents—and probably most other mammals, including pets—merely with a whiff of their armpit sweat, a new…
A study in Nature Methods has kicked up a bit of a fuss: In 2007, his lab observed that mice spend less time licking a painful…
A new study is wafting an odor of uncertainty over the results of prior experiments using lab rats and mice. Researchers have…
Albino lab mouse Wikimedia Commons Mice get stressed out in response to human men, but not women, a new study shows. Why…
In what is being considered a serious problem for biomedical research, scientists from McGill University have discovered that…
The discovery that the scent of a man influences the reliability and replicability of data collected in pain research on mice…
A new study indicates that rodents are influenced by the scent of the sex of the researcher studying them, a finding that has…
Scientists’ inability to replicate research findings using mice and rats has contributed to mounting concern over the…
The difficulty of doing good animal studies has come up here many times, such as the recent suggestion that many rodent…
The difficulty of doing good animal studies has come up here many times, such as the recent suggestion that many rodent…
According to this press release, researchers at McGill University in Montreal have discovered that the presence of a male…
I smell biased experimental results. Alexander H. Tuttle To a certain extent, science is a process that…
I smell biased experimental results. Alexander H. Tuttle To a certain extent, science is a process that…
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A study published today in Nature is casting doubt on the results of countless pre-clinical trials performed using lab rodents.