For generations, laboratory mice have lived and died under fluorescent lights, their world reduced to plastic cages and standardized pellets. When researchers finally moved some of these animals into ...

A cage containing albino laboratory mice was one of more than 50 containers of the rodents stacked on shelves inside a clandestine lab discovered in a warehouse in downtown Reedley in December 2022.

A Cornell University team released lab mice that had previously lived in cages the size of a shoebox into a large, enclosed field.

Mouse shelters can provide mice with security, help them thermoregulate, offer darkness to prevent damage to their eyes and enable climbing and gnawing opportunities. For laboratory mice, there is a ...

Providing structural enrichment is a widespread refinement method for laboratory rodents and other animals in captivity. So far, animal welfare research has mostly focused on the effect of increased ...

About 1,000 albino laboratory mice discovered earlier this year in a clandestine lab in Reedley were being kept in such “terrible” and “inhumane” conditions that they were apparently fighting and ...