A naked mole rat can outlive a typical lab mouse by a factor of ten, surviving more than four decades while almost never ...

To create mouse-rat "chimeras," researchers injected rat stem cells into mouse embryos that lacked some genes for brain development. Creative Touch Imaging Ltd. / NurPhoto via Getty Images Scientists ...

Two independent research teams have successfully regenerated mouse brain circuits in mice using neurons grown from rat stem cells. Both studies, using interspecies blastocyst complementation to study ...

When it comes to rodent bites, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that bites are rare; however, the bad news is that they are serious. A bite from a mouse or rat can transmit a variety ...

Chimeras, fictional creatures made up of a combination of body parts from different animals, such as the mythological Minotaur, have captivated thinkers, philosophers and scientists throughout history ...

A rat embryonic stem cells derived lung generated within a mouse body stained with epithelial cells (labelled with E-cadherin, shown in gray), rat cells (shown in green), mouse cells (shown in red), ...

For the first time, researchers have used cells from one species to restore the sense of smell in another. In an article published April 25 in Cell, researchers from Columbia University described how ...