When it comes to health, some of our animal neighbors have extraordinary advantages. Ostriches, for example, are highly resistant to viruses, while sharks rarely develop cancer. And species like naked ...

A tiny mouse is proving that even the smallest beings can make a big impact — by cementing his place in the record books. Pat, a Pacific pocket mouse named after actor Sir Patrick Stewart, has ...

In a stunning breakthrough, scientists have successfully engineered a living mouse using a gene that predates animal life by hundreds of millions of years. This study, published in Nature ...