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An expedition to the Solomon Islands to investigate rare monkey-faced bats and giant rats will help preserve these remarkable species.
Plague, one of the deadliest diseases in the world, has been reported in several African countries in the past decade.
We all know that stress can wreak havoc on your health but what does it do to your genes?
In many of the workplaces I visit as a neuroscientist, stressed workers behave much like addicted lab rats. But you don’t have to quit the rat race to start feeling better at work.
Research published this week shows saving wildlife is much more complicated than killing introduced predators. Killing predators often doesn’t work, and is sometimes actually worse for native wildlife.
When we figure out how places connect geographically, local maps in the brain join into a single, overarching map.
Altruistic behaviour is not just for humans, lab rat behaviour test shows.
Memories can be selectively removed in rats with an altered memory reactivated in its place, according to a new study by…
Declining numbers of zebra, antelope and other big grazers cause rodent populations to rapidly increase, a new study has shown. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Hillary…
When it comes to thinking about disease, rats are usually thought of as vermin that carry plague and pestilence. But what about rats being used to sniff out diseases such as tuberculosis in people’s saliva…
Malaria parasites that infect West African bats are closely related to parasites which are used to model human malaria in…
Our series, Animals in Research, profiles the top organisms used for science experimentation. In this instalment, we look at the original lab rats: Rattus norvegicus. Rats have a long history in medical…
Across the world, the damage caused by invasive alien species is second only to habitat destruction by humans in reducing the planet’s biodiversity. Their effect is especially potent on islands. Cats…
The neostriatum, the part of the brain that controls movement, may also hold mechanisms that control consumption, such as…
A new method of scanning laboratory rats will open the way for new experiments looking at the links between brain and behavioural…
Many forms of mental illness can affect our moods. But that isn’t all they do: they can also damage our willpower. Problems such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity…
Researchers have used rats in a study to discover stress and resilience can be inherited. Rats were used in the study because…
A species of African rat makes its own poison by gnawing on a toxic tree and smearing the toxic saliva on to hair on its…
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