A team of Brazilian researchers has produced a graphene-based scaffold that, when implanted into broken rat tibias, drove ...

Scientists have completed a brain cell transplant, combining lab-grown clumps of human brain cells with those of newborn rats. The experiment is disturbing, but there's a good reason behind the move.

In a new study Indiana University researchers observed episodic memory in rats to a degree never documented before, suggesting that rats can serve as a model for complex cognitive processes often ...

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Seven years ago, researchers at Stanford University started an ambitious experiment: They began growing miniature, simplified versions of the human brain from stem cells inside a lab, then later ...

You've heard the concept of the "rat race," but how about a literal rat, racing through the hallways of Doom? One researcher named Viktor Toth ran an experiment over nearly six months, seeing if he ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The University of South Carolina said an experiment involving cocaine-addicted rats being electrically shocked has been stopped for now. In November, the university ...

Cue the Jurassic Park theme song: Scientists in Switzerland appear to have pulled off a remarkable feat, creating sterile and seemingly healthy mice that can produce the sperm cells of a rat. These ...