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 ...

New SRUC research finds male and female rats enjoy tickling differently, offering insights into animal welfare and handling refinement.

Modified Handling for Mice: Handling mice by gripping the base of the tail has been shown to negatively impact animal welfare by increasing anxiety and aversion to handling. We aimed to refi ne the ...

Rats can be playfully handled (tickled) in a manner that mimics playful social contact with conspecifics. We hypothesized that the timing of tickling in relation to an intraperitoneal injection would ...

Researchers have finished their work with lab rats and have put the animals up for adoption.They were used for psychology work but now have the chance to retire, assistant professor of psychology ...

Researchers in Australia tickled the rodents every day for a month to see if it would improve their emotional well-being. By Yan Zhuang MELBOURNE, Australia — It’s generally not a good time to be a ...

In neuroscientist Kelly Lambert's lab at the University of Richmond, rats hop into cars, rev their engines, and skid across the floor of an arena. Once they maneuver their vehicles across the finish ...

There's the rat race, and then there are these lab rats who learned to drive tiny cars. WIRED's Matt Simon talked with neuroscientist Kelly Lambert about what her driving rodent experiment can teach ...

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Humans owe a huge debt of gratitude to lab rodents, but only now are we discovering just how many thanks are in order. In a first for laboratory science, a new report has attempted to quantify how ...

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 ...