The growth of human hair in nude mice has been studied more than the growth of mouse hair in nude humans. This study reports some of the early work about the first of those categories: “The Growth of Human Hair in Nude Mice,” Dominique Van Neste, Dermatologic Clinics, vol. 14, no. 4, 1996, pp. 609-617. […]
Might this study about whiskers in mice be educational for whiskered humans — about similar human capabilities they may be under-utilizing? The study is: “Detection and neural encoding of whisker-generated sounds in mice,” Ben Efron, Athanasios Ntelezos, Yonatan Katz, and Ilan Lamp, Current Biology, vol. 35, no. 6, 2025, pp. 1211-1226. The authors report: Whisking […]
Humanity’s persistent wondering about how and whether drinking coffee might affect the wellbeing of mice led to this new study done in Portugal: “Impact of Coffee Intake on Measures of Wellbeing in Mice,” Nuno J. Machado, Ana Paula Ardais, Ana Nunes, Eszter C. Szabó, Vasco Silveirinha,Henrique B. Silva, Manuella P. Kaster, and Rodrigo A. Cunha, […]
High drinking in the dark and other intellectual adventures await you, yours for the reading, in the study: “Development and implementation of a Dependable, Simple, and Cost-effective (DSC), open-source running wheel in High Drinking in the Dark and Heterogeneous Stock/Northport mice,” Kolter Grigsby, Zaynah Usmani, Justin Anderson, and Angela Ozburn, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, vol. […]