The instinct to help a fellow creature runs deep. We see the behavior in humans, elephants and now mice. A new study published in the journal Science outlines what it calls prosocial behavior in mice ...

Humans may not be the only ones who aid their friends when they're hurt. Mice may do it, too, as shown by a new research study led by scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of USC published ...

In a new study, researchers have found that mice can instinctively exhibit rescue-like behavior toward anesthetized conspecifics—without any prior training or external rewards. The study, published in ...

University of California, Los Angeles, researchers have identified neural mechanisms behind prosocial behaviors in mice directed toward unresponsive conspecifics. Their findings suggest that mice, ...

A new study finds that lab mice perform a suite of likely innate behaviors towards unconscious mice that help them revive faster. When we humans encounter an unconscious person, we might spring into ...

You may be familiar with this scenario: A child starts annoying another child, and they start bickering. To keep things from escalating, an adult distracts the children by focusing their attention on ...

As detailed in a Stanford-led study published in Nature, researchers successfully created a replica of a neuronal pathway responsible for pain transmission in a lab dish called an “assembloid.” The ...

Northwestern researchers have developed a wireless device that uses patterns of light to send information directly to the brain in mice, according to a study published in the Nature Neuroscience ...

Individualistic reward-seeking strategies predict responses to nicotine among mice living in a micro-society, according to a new study. Individualistic reward-seeking strategies predict responses to ...