Cats overwhelmingly choose to sleep on their left side, a habit researchers say could be tied to survival. This sleep ...

A new book offers a valuable discussion of the double bind in which many researchers and lab technicians find themselves: ...

Despite our legendary Southern hospitality, there’s one houseguest that’s never welcome: mice! These rodents can infest all aspects of a home, including the shed, garage, attic, or even lawnmowers, ...

Baseball will stay at the beach. City Council on June 10 approved a new 30-year lease for the Myrtle Beach Pelicans and ...

Brody's show features large mixed media art in what he calls an autobiographical display of the gritty New York of his youth. It’s an approach that has been met with some derision.

Scientists have engineered a hybrid mouse with a gene that predates all animal life. The team replaced a single gene in the mouse stem cells with a version from an ancient, single-celled ancestor ...

The genes were injected during the mouse’s embryonic state and created a chimera, which is the term for an animal that sports two distinct sets of DNA. Related Story Scientists Grew a Mouse ...

Published in Nature Communications, an international team of researchers has achieved an unprecedented milestone: the creation of mouse stem cells capable of generating a fully developed mouse using ...

image: The mouse on the left is a chimeric with dark eyes and patches of black fur, a result of stem cells derived from a choanoflagellate Sox gene.

Just logging each mouse into the shelter’s database is a chore, never mind providing food, water and bedding. It’s a lot of work for a facility that at most once took in 125 animals in one day.

The Frederick County Division of Animal Control and Pet Adoption Center often has the opportunity to explain the term “open admission shelter.” Open admission means we take in any animal ...