Lab mice that 'touch grass' are less anxious — and that highlights a big problem in rodent research

Mice that experience the real world may be better models for human mental health conditions, compared with lab mice that ...
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Benchmarking framework reveals major safety risks of using AI in lab experiments

While artificial intelligence (AI) models have proved useful in some areas of science, like predicting 3D protein structures, ...
The Cornell Daily Sun

Study Identifies Key Behavioral Differences Between Lab and Wild-Derived Mice

New research suggests that the commonly used ‘lab mouse’ may display behaviors entirely distinct from their wild-derived counterparts, prompting new considerations for the future of animal-based ...
Purdue University

Growing clouds in a lab to study the science of far-away skies

Alexandria Johnson does hard science on the most nebulous of subjects: clouds. As an atmospheric scientist and assistant professor of practice in Purdue University’s College of Science, she studies ...
Arizona State Press

Child Study Lab adapts to teaching, researching in a pandemic

ASU's Child Study Lab, a preschool community for children ages 15 months to 5 years, adapted and refined its remote curriculum and is working to resume research after months of halted projects due to ...
Drexel University

LADDER Lab: Join a Study

Researchers at Drexel University are seeking child participants with Down syndrome and typically developing peers for a study of brain function and sleep. For children with Down syndrome, the study ...
KCCI Des Moines

Lab-grown meat could have a worse carbon footprint than animal agriculture, study says

THE SPLIT, A NINE MINUTE RIDE. LETICIA, THANK YOU SO MUCH, BRIAN. NEW THIS MORNING, LAB GROWN MEAT MADE FROM ANIMAL CELLS IS THOUGHT TO BE BETTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. BUT A NEW STUDY FROM UC DAVIS ...

Sleep Lab Data Can Predict Illnesses Years Earlier, Study Finds

“We record an amazing number of signals when we study sleep,” co-senior researcher Dr. Emmanuel Mignot, a professor of sleep medicine at Stanford, said in a news release. “It’s a kind of general ...