Researchers have found that the small intestine grows in response to pregnancy in mice. This partially irreversible change may help mice support a pregnancy and prepare for a second. Researchers ...

In research published in Cell, the same team found that pregnant mice had a longer small intestine from just seven days into ...

Pregnancy causes the mouse small intestine to grow, with changes persisting after birth and further increasing after a second pregnancy. The villi and crypts in the intestine also grow but revert ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have found that the small intestine grows in response to pregnancy in mice. This partially irreversible change may help mice support a pregnancy and prepare ...

When male mice and pregnant or lactating female mice are placed closely together, chemical signals in the females’ urine stress the males out and make them less sensitive to pain, according to a study ...

More than 300 harvest mice are released as part of a project in the North York Moors National Park. All rodents have been eradicated from the island in recent years to protect its seabird population.

In research published today in Cell, the same team found that pregnant mice had a longer small intestine from just seven days into the pregnancy. By the end of the pregnancy, around day 18, the ...

Exposed Prognant Mice They devised a vacuum chamber in which they have exposed hundreds of pregnant white mice, each for a period of five hours, to a shortage of oxygen similar to that 28,000 feet ...

After giving the mice a mating period of a few hours, the scientists then removed the female mice and waited to see which of them got pregnant. In the control group, 30 percent of the females ended up ...