The advantages of the mouse for behavioural studies include an extensive array of genetic technologies and an elaborate behavioural repertoire that can be used to create models of human disease.

A new study shows that inserting human DNA into mice grow bigger brains, offering clues to human brain evolution.

A small segment of human DNA boosts brain size and complexity, revealing both the origins of intelligence and its ...

Genetic mutation in mice . To figure out what this gene mutation does, the researchers used mice. They made mice that had the ...

Genetic scientists have spliced human DNA into mice, resulting in rodents with increased brain mass, offering new clues to ...

A newly identified mutation helps super-sleepers get by on just four to six hours of shut-eye per night, while the rest of us ...

That presented a potential problem; regulators have been strident that genetic therapies demonstrate an infinitesimal risk of altering the human germline ... Working with a mouse model of ...

In the earliest hours after fertilization, an embryo takes its first steps toward becoming a living organism by shedding ...