Naked Pleasure
They’re anything but warm and fuzzy. Wrinkled, bald with slits for eyes, naked mole rats huddle together underground for warmth. While they have no hair, poor eyesight, an unregulated body temperature...
View ArticleOf Obesity, Sweets and Numb Tongues
More than 60 percent of adult Americans are obese, and ever-increasing levels of fat and sugar are sneaking into processed foods. Could blunted taste buds be partly to blame? Neuroscientists at...
View ArticleMine Heir
Today in Mice recently sounded the alarm about calls by researchers to move beyond the mouse model of studying human disease and begin using vast databases of human health information — or larger...
View ArticleThe IV Danger
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered that a chemical commonly used in making plastic medical devices — from intravenous (IV) bags to catheters — can impair the...
View ArticleRats: Just a Bunch of Homebodies
A study just published in the journal Molecular Ecology has found that while inner-city rodents may appear to roam far and wide, they actually stick to distinct neighborhoods for the majority of their...
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New Rat Species Nose Their Way Into Menageries
Rodents — especially those found thriving amongst sewers and subway tracks — are regarded by many as the cockroaches of the mammal world. But here at Miller-McCune.com, we hold mice, rats and the rest...
View ArticleRats, Enlisted
Anti-mining NGOs have known for awhile that a properly-trained rat can smell explosives and signal the threat’s location to a human handler. Now the US Army Research Center has contracted a Virginia...
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