Lab mice: The tiny footprints behind 100 years of medical discovery

Last week, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh announced they had unlocked a rodent fountain of youth. The university is host to a colony of progeria mice, mice infected with a rare disease that leads them to die of old age after only three weeks. But when researchers took progeria mice standing on death’s door ...

Capture, sale of monkeys lucrative, controversial

For the past 14 years, Scott Cheslak has roamed the forests along the Ocklawaha River, the Florida Greenway and the Silver River State Park, quietly plucking rhesus monkeys for sale to research laboratories.

Attacked

POST FALLS - All Barbara Taylor was doing was taking her black lab mix Liebchen in for a thyroid checkup.

Twin horses are born of eggs from mom killed in Windsor twister, thanks to CSU

Dr. Patrick McCue crossed his arms and smiled at the twin quarter horses born to surrogate mothers. "Triumph over tragedy," said the Colorado State University professor who engineered the births of horse-breeding's "miracle twins."

Campus Area Farms offer lots of living lab space

Tim Dodge, who grew up on a dairy farm and worked for seven years as a field assistant at Cornell, felt well prepared for his job as manager of 352-acre Campus Area Farms, operated by Cornell's Agricultural Experiment Station (CUAES). But after four years in the job he's still "amazed," he says, at the complexity at the heart of the plant breeding and soil science research he supports.