CHICAGO — Mice love to run. But not when they’re taking semaglutide, the diabetes and weight-loss drug sold as Ozempic and Wegovy. While on the drug, mice ran less on a wheel in a cage, a new ...

Wheel running in the wild. For pet and lab mice, running wheels are a common feature, often used to encourage exercise. However, some scientists have argued that mice only run on these wheels ...

More staff quit, most without explanation, but others complained that the mice only seemed to be running on their wheels, or taking small sips from the steel straws of their water bottles. “The ...

New research suggests that mice base their decisions on more than just immediate reward. They may also make 'mistakes' on purpose. By Lauren Leffer Published Apr 26, 2024 11:00 AM EDT Get the ...

After researchers analyzed mice running on a treadmill looking at at how long it took before the animals exhausted themselves, they found that the gut microbiome — a makeup of trillions of ...

More information: Zoe Thompson et al, Effects of food restriction on voluntary wheel-running behavior and body mass in selectively bred High Runner lines of mice, Physiology & Behavior (2024). DOI ...

Tracking what lab mice choose to do is much easier, and lab mice generally like to run on wheels for many hours per day. In this study, researchers saw the mice chose to run at similar levels ...