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Studying a diverse and peculiar genus of mice offers researchers a window into the genetic and neural underpinnings of behavior.

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A Nile rat sitting atop fruits

Genome Spotlight: Nile Rat (Avicanthis niloticus)

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Worms Live Longer with Mitochondria Powered by Light: Preprint

Pink rat pups piled on top of each other.

Rat Sperm Generated from Stem Cells

a purple betta with white fins in a tank

My Daughter’s First Pet—the Next Big Model Organism?

a leopard gecko with an unusually yellow body

“Lemon Frost” Leopard Geckos’ Cancers Similar to Human Melanomas

An underwater photo of the solitary tunicate Polycarpa mytiligera growing on a coral in the Red Sea

When Severed, This Solitary Tunicate Regrows as Three New Animals

neuroscience, mice, fear, pain, empathy, social transmission, emotion contagion, optogenetics, analgesia, Stanford University

Mice Share Each Other’s Pain and Fear

Kathryn Anderson, forward genetics, genetics & genomics, model organisms, Toll, hedgehog, embryogenesis, developmental biology, cell differentiation, cilia,

Developmental Biologist Kathryn Anderson Dies at 68

animal learning, zebra finch, model organism, communication, fast mapping, individual recognition, cognition, evolution

Zebra Finches Recognize the Calls of Over 40 Fellow Finches

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Universe 25 Experiment

A woman in her 60s wears a yellow tank top and brown-rimmed glasses while placing a hormone-replacement patch on her upper arm.

Flawed Studies Linked Menopausal Hormone Therapy to Breast Cancer

A painting depicts an operation with a patient under anesthesia as doctors surround him and other doctors watch from the operating theater.

The Origin of Anesthesia: Feuding Scientists, War, and Dart Poison

A hand holding $100 bills reaches out of a green-colored laptop screen, indicating a bribe.

Publisher Investigates an Alleged Peer Review Extortion Attempt

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Advancing Respiratory Immunity Through Tissue-Resident Memory T Cell Research

Advancing Respiratory Immunity Through Tissue-Resident Memory T Cell Research

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A model of a brain made of flat, multicolored pieces stacked together.

Mapping Tissues with Spatial Biology

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Epic Fail: Sea-Monkeys Sabotage Fieldwork

When Barry Hicks set out to photograph thrombolites, thousands of unexpected visitors photobombed his underwater images.

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Overcoming Immunotherapy Resistance in Liver Cancer

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Optimizing NGS Library Preparation for Reliable Sequencing Data

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Using TCR Repertoire Sequencing to Advance Immunology Research

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