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Scientists tracked tiny pieces of microplastics as they moved through the brain blood vessels of mice. Some of them became stuck.

Microplastics Getting Stuck in Brain Vessels Like Clots, Scientists Find, Causing “Neurological Abnormalities” in Mice

By Victor Tangermann

A mouse with two dads — or a bi-paternal mouse, in the scientific parlance — has made it to adulthood. Several mice, in fact.

A Mouse With Two Dads Has Reached Adulthood

By Frank Landymore

The technique involves using a common food dye used in Doritos chips, which can be applied to mice skin to turn it transparent.

Scientists Use Wild Trick to Create Transparent Mice Where You Can See Their Internal Organs, Like a Clear 90s Nintendo

By Frank Landymore

Researchers at Northwestern University have built a massive pair of virtual reality goggles for mice to study how their brains work.

Virtual Reality

Scientists Create Comically Gigantic VR Goggles for Mice

By Victor Tangermann

Astronauts thawed frozen mouse embryos abroad the International Space Station and were able to grow them normally.

Japanese Researchers Just Grew Mouse Embryos in Space

By Sharon Adarlo

It's finally happened — scientists have brought about the birth of baby mammals using stem cells from two males to create lab-made eggs.

Scientists Create Litter of Mice From Two Male Fathers

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of neuroscientists at the University of Wisconsin claim to have found a way to control how high mice can get on cocaine.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Found a Way to Control How High Mice Got on Cocaine

By Victor Tangermann

A group of researchers were able to alter the genes of unfertilized mice embryos so that it could create offspring without male sperm.

Science & Energy

Scientists Breed Jesus Mice With No Father

By Tony Ho Tran

Ernesto Lujan, a biologist and founder of medical startup dNovo, says his company has successfully transplanted human hair stem cells onto a mouse.

Scientists Are Growing Human Hair on Mice to Transplant to Bald People

By Tony Ho Tran

Stunning New Brain-Fat Burning Connection Discovered in Mice

Neuroscience and Brain

Stunning New Brain-Fat Burning Connection Discovered in Mice

By Dan Robitzski

A bunch of mice got absolutely ripped before heading to space thanks to cutting edge gene-editing science. According to a new paper, they stayed ripped.

Gene-Hacked “Bodybuilder” Mice Stayed Ripped on Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Special modified human stem cells were able to control blood sugar levels in a demonstration involving diabetic mice by secreting insulin.

Diabetic Mice “Cured Rapidly” Using Human Stem Cells

By Victor Tangermann

The latest space supply mission to the ISS will include “mighty mice,” rodents genetically engineered to grow larger muscles than normal.

SpaceX Is Sending Super-Muscular Mice to the Space Station

By Kristin Houser

A team of scientists at the University of Richmond, Virginia have taught rats how to drive tiny cars around a track to get to a food reward.

Science & Energy

Scientists Taught Rats How to Drive Tiny Cars

By Victor Tangermann

To help us detect deepfakes, researchers are training mice to listen for the kinds of speech irregularities that can crop up in faked audio.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Say Mice Could Detect Deepfakes. Seriously.

By Kristin Houser

A video of mice in microgravity reveals that the animals quickly adapted to their off-world conditions, running, eating, and cleaning themselves.

Space Station Mice Learned to Propel Themselves in Zero Gravity

By Kristin Houser