In Dr. Sergiu Pașca's research lab at Stanford University, the resident rats have clumps of human cells in their brains. Blow on a rat's whiskers and the human cells on the opposite side of its brain ...

OTHER RATS HAV BEEEN WORKHORSES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY LAB AT MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY. I LIKE HOW CURIOUS THEY ARE. THEY’RE ALWAYS STIFF INHE TIR NOSES AROUND SOMETHING PROFESSOR. KELLY. BANAS SAYS LAB ...

Scientists have published nearly the entire genome of the common rat, making it possible to compare it to the genetic maps of people and mice. That ability is expected to yield clues into evolution ...

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MILLERSVILLE, Pa. (WHTM) – Let’s face it, rats have an “Ewwww!” problem. Often looked on as vermin, they’re considered dirty and disease-ridden. But people who raise rats or keep them as pets will ...

If you think laughter and comedy are reserved strictly for humans, you’d be wrong. A study in the late 1990s showed that creatures like rats emit ultrasonic vocalizations while playing with or ...

In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, every morning, a medical specialist known as Chewa (a name that means brave in Swahili — but his bosses call him Mchapakazi, the hard worker) gets excited about his job.

To learn more about how environmental factors influence the cognitive abilities of humans, researchers have trained rodents to drive tiny cars. It may sound far out, but rats have similar pathways and ...