But as automated cages grew more sophisticated ... and peripheral body clocks in organs and tissues affect metabolism, Dyar compared mice with and without a gene required for the skeletal muscle ...

The CNRC houses laboratories supported by state-of-the-art equipment, room calorimeters, a greenhouse, a metabolic kitchen, multiple observation labs, as well as accommodations for research volunteers ...

The mice are kept in see-through plastic cages with an area of at least 370 square centimetres. Three to six mice live in each cage, depending on their weight. The cages are 14 centimetres high and ...

In this project, funded by an AWI Refinement Grant, we tested whether raising male mice in partially divided cages affected aggression and behavioral performance from weaning through 180 days old in ...

The study, "Selective utilization of glucose metabolism guides mammalian gastrulation," published in Nature, identifies two distinct waves of glucose utilization during mouse gastrulation.