A new study suggests that psilocybin, also known as magic mushrooms, could extend lifespan. Researchers at the Emory ...

Mouse models have advanced our understanding of immune function and disease in many ways but they have failed to account for the natural diversity in human immune responses. As a result, insights ...

Would you get a one-time genetic modification such that you'd never have to take a GLP-1 drug for weight loss ever again?

And even if mice are hallucinating, they have no means of communicating that experience to the human experimenters. "I think it's just an intuition that it's not going to work—that [a mouse ...

Researchers caution that moving from mice to human applications will require careful fine-tuning and perhaps new pharmaceutical tools, like an isoleucine-blocking drug.

Mice and humans actually have very similar gene activity changes, the researchers report August 4 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Science News headlines, in your inbox.

Scientists in Austria are studying live human brain cells and comparing them to those of mice. Their findings raise questions ...

Mice that live in human houses must have several characteristics to survive—they must be quick (and quiet) so as not to be seen or caught.

Unlike mice, humans and other primates have a structure called fovea in the retina, which mediates the high acuity central vision. In the human fovea, ...

Each mouse received 300,000 human cells; within a year, that number had grown to 12 million. The result was a group of Jonathan Frisbys that were much smarter than their buddies.

The mice with this genetic change developed symptoms similar to young humans infected with the virus causing COVID-19, instead of dying upon infection as had occurred with prior mouse models.

Tiny plastic fragments have been found in oceans, food, drinks, and even human tissues. We’ve only learned about them recently, but they seem to be a real threat to our health.