Have you heard the sound of scratching or footsteps inside of your walls? Have you seen droppings that look like pellets in the cupboards? If so, you likely have a rat or mouse in the house. To ...

Mickey Mouse and Remy in Ratatouille might be adorable characters on the screen, but there is nothing entertaining about finding rodents in a home. They can be a nuisance and cause significant damage, ...

Mice lacking an olfactory system have had their sense of smell restored with neurons from rats, the first time scientists have successfully integrated the sensory apparatus of one species into another ...

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 ...

What does it feel like to be a rat? We will never know, but some very unusual mice may now have an inkling. In a series of new experiments, bits of rat brain grew inside the brains of mice. Donor stem ...

Whether you’ve just discovered droppings, gnaw marks on your furniture, or, worst of all, a live animal, you know there’s a rodent in your home. But is it a rat or a mouse? Telling the two species ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

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 ...

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NEW YORK, NY--If mice ever wonder what it’s like to experience the world as a rat, some are now able to live that dream, at least when it comes to the sense of smell. Researchers led by Columbia ...