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Recognition and Alleviation of Distress in Laboratory Animals aims to educate laboratory animal veterinarians; students, researchers, and investigators; animal care staff, as well as animal welfare ...

Mice and rats are the most common lab animals. That's why some influential new guidelines on how to house mother rodents and their babies have... Labs Size Up New Guidelines For Rodent Cages ...

For generations, laboratory mice have lived and died under fluorescent lights, their world reduced to plastic cages and standardized pellets. When researchers finally moved some of these animals into ...