rats

There is a surprising champion of land mine detection: the African giant pouched rat

Recent study results suggest that addressing FKBP1b deficiency may represent a new avenue for countering age-related memory loss

The rats show significantly improved mobility and sensory perception, as well as spinal cord healing

What researchers found not only settles an argument about how rats process odors, it suggests an explanation for the much written-about “replication crisis” in some fields of science and points to better ways of designing experiments

Rodents of unusual size 17 times more likely on islands than elsewhere

What if repairing large segments of damaged muscle tissue was as simple as mobilizing the body’s stem cells to the site of the injury? New research in mice and rats, conducted at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine, suggests that “in body” regeneration of muscle tissue might be possible by harnessing the body’s natural healing powers.

Rats use a sense that humans don’t: “whisking.” They move their facial whiskers back and forth about eight times a second to locate objects in their environment. Could humans acquire this sense?