he reminisced. To answer that question, Kaplan and his colleagues engineered mice lacking a specific type of itch-sensing neuron, preventing them from scratching. When they exposed their ears to ...

But inflammation was much milder in mice that couldn’t scratch because they wore tiny “cones of shame” (like dogs wear after ...

Like humans, mice normally scratch themselves in response to itchy compounds. As such, scientists can use mice to study new approaches to treat chronic itch conditions like atopic dermatitis ...

[Andreas] took on the popular project which combines a hard drive and optical mouse to build a scratch controller. The gist of the build is that you use an optical mouse sensor to track the ...

Research in mice showed limited intakes of one particular essential amino acid can slow the impacts of aging and even lengthen their lifespan.

just like yawning Scientists proved this by showing a set of mice videos of other mice scratching. The first group started having a quick scratch too. 6. Contagious scratching involves a tiny part ...

Pictured is the nerve ending, in green, of a specialized type of itch nerve in the skin of mice. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jul. 10, 2019, issue of Science Translational ...