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Marmoset colony set to grow in Texas

Ellen P. Neff
News06 Aug 2019
Lab Animal

Volume: 48, P: 243
Designing new biointerfaces with silicon

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights25 Jun 2018
Lab Animal

Volume: 47, P: 186
A new tool puts a number on mouse pain

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights16 Sept 2019
Lab Animal

Volume: 48, P: 297
Go long(-itudinal)! Social housing protects working memory in rats

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights04 Feb 2019
Lab Animal

Volume: 48, P: 81
Veterinarians meet honey bees in the US

Ellen P. Neff
News08 Apr 2019
Lab Animal

Volume: 48, P: 125-126
Stop and smell the geosmin

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights24 Sept 2018
Lab Animal

Volume: 47, P: 270
A natural macaque model of Bardet-Biedl appears in Oregon

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights16 Dec 2019
Lab Animal

Volume: 49, P: 17
They’re hot then they’re cold—tenrecs take Vegas

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights07 Jan 2019
Lab Animal

Volume: 48, P: 45
A fishy option for human norovirus research

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights14 Oct 2019
Lab Animal

Volume: 48, P: 329
COVID-19 Q&A: A fish facility down to its core

University College London’s Carole Wilson talks to Lab Animal about how she and her fish facility staff have responded to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Ellen P. Neff
Comments & Opinion15 Apr 2020
Lab Animal

Volume: 49, P: 135-136
A transgenic zebrafish for discovering viruses and studying host-pathogen interactions

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights15 Jun 2020
Lab Animal

Volume: 49, P: 195
The naked mole rat’s unique innate immunity

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights20 Jan 2020
Lab Animal

Volume: 49, P: 43
A new approach for large animal electrophysiology

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights23 Oct 2018
Lab Animal

Volume: 47, P: 307
Gal4-UAS gets a germline update

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights24 Jul 2018
Lab Animal

Volume: 47, P: 210
Painless pain assessments with machine learning

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights23 May 2018
Lab Animal

Volume: 47, P: 149
An AAV library for retinal cell expression in mouse, macaque, and man

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights19 Aug 2019
Lab Animal

Volume: 48, P: 264
Set lasers to image

Engineers and neuroscientists working to advance multiphoton microscopy are pushing the depths, speeds, and scales of in vivo imaging.

Ellen P. Neff
Special Features12 Aug 2020
Lab Animal

Volume: 49, P: 245-248
COVID-19 Q&A: Keeping a cancer core going

Jennifer Koblinski explains how the Cancer Mouse Models Core at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Massey Cancer Center (MCC) has kept its facility up and running in the face of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Ellen P. Neff
Comments & Opinion20 Apr 2020
Lab Animal

Volume: 49, P: 163
Cancer modeling thinks big with the pig

Large animal models can be important translational steps between basic research in rodents and clinical care in humans. Ever thought about a pig?

Ellen P. Neff
Special Features11 Feb 2019
Lab Animal

Volume: 48, P: 75-78
Neural control of duets between Alston’s singing mice, an emerging vocalization model

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights08 Apr 2019
Lab Animal

Volume: 48, P: 137
Considering the cephalopod

Octopuses, squids, and cuttlefishes all have potential as lab animals. As models emerge, what goes in to keeping them happy and healthy in the lab?

Ellen P. Neff
Special Features12 Dec 2018
Lab Animal

Volume: 48, P: 19-22
Do be so immature: dedifferentiated β cells help mice evade Type 1 diabetes

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights20 Apr 2020
Lab Animal

Volume: 49, P: 145
Light-sheet microscopes unwrap the heart

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights23 Apr 2018
Lab Animal

Volume: 47, P: 123
CRISPR in cephalopods yields the first knockout squid

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights10 Sept 2020
Lab Animal

Volume: 49, P: 292
The noses have it: murine brain development starts with a smell

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights11 Mar 2019
Lab Animal

Volume: 48, P: 114
COVID-19 Q&A: Collaborating and coordinating keeps a zebrafish facility going

Christine Archer, fish facility coordinator at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, walks Lab Animal through her facility’s response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Ellen P. Neff
Comments & Opinion15 Apr 2020
Lab Animal

Volume: 49, P: 136-137
Farewell, FATZO: a NASH mouse update

Ellen P. Neff
News06 May 2019
Lab Animal

Volume: 48, P: 151
Seeing plaid: evidence of higher level motion processing found in the ferret

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights11 Feb 2019
Lab Animal

Volume: 48, P: 84
Keep still! Immobilizing animals with hydrogels

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights24 Aug 2018
Lab Animal

Volume: 47, P: 234
Littermate wanted: standardizing mouse gut microbiota requires more than cohousing

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights17 Jun 2019
Lab Animal

Volume: 48, P: 197
Getting a brighter view on animal anatomy

Ellen P. Neff
News08 Jul 2019
Lab Animal

Volume: 48, P: 219
Piecing together the vector control puzzle

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights17 Feb 2020
Lab Animal

Volume: 49, P: 71
Keeping large animals contained

Caring for lab animals is always a priority. But some, depending on the research they are being used for, can require extra attention. As the animals in question get bigger, the task of keeping them in contained facilities can just get a bit more challenging.

Ellen P. Neff
Special Features19 Sept 2019
Lab Animal

Volume: 48, P: 291-293
Rodents move towards the Disease Ontology

Ellen P. Neff
News23 May 2018
Lab Animal

Volume: 47, P: 136
The Black 6 gets company: De novo genomes assembled for 16 more mice

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights19 Nov 2018
Lab Animal

Volume: 48, P: 25
The quest for an animal model of coral health and disease

Could a ‘lab rat’ for the coral field help researchers conserve these threatened animals in the wild?

Ellen P. Neff
Special Features27 Jan 2020
Lab Animal

Volume: 49, P: 37-41
Viral benefits: murine norovirus can protect the gut via interferon

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights15 Jul 2019
Lab Animal

Volume: 48, P: 233
Measles outbreaks: a reminder that human diseases can move beyond human populations

Ellen P. Neff
News04 Mar 2019
Lab Animal

Volume: 48, P: 95
A point on thermoneutrality for mice

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights25 May 2020
Lab Animal

Volume: 49, P: 169
CRISPR takes genetic screens forward

Applying the molecular scissors to animals at scale is helping researchers delve into the potential roles of different genes.

Ellen P. Neff
Special Features18 Dec 2019
Lab Animal

Volume: 49, P: 13-16
Whole genome sequencing has gone to the dogs

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights06 May 2019
Lab Animal

Volume: 48, P: 166
The social transmission of stress

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights26 Feb 2018
Lab Animal

Volume: 47, P: 64
Breaking down behavior

Ellen P. Neff
Research Highlights26 Mar 2018
Lab Animal

Volume: 47, P: 106
Model matchmaking

Building platforms to connect clinicians and model organism researchers.

Ellen P. Neff
Special Features20 Jan 2021
Lab Animal

Volume: 50, P: 39-42
The many ways to map many brains

Whether the animal has a few hundred neurons or a few billion, mapping the ‘brain’ is a complex endeavor for which there are several different tacks one might take. Data collection continues on.

Ellen P. Neff
Special Features23 Oct 2019
Lab Animal

Volume: 48, P: 321-325
What is a lab animal?

Small but dedicated communities are bringing the earliest lineages of the animal kingdom into the lab. Take a look at the ctenophores, the sponges, and the placozoans.

Ellen P. Neff
Special Features24 Aug 2018
Lab Animal

Volume: 47, P: 223-227
Building avatar armies with fish and flies

Personalizing zebrafish and fly models may help determine the best course of treatment for cancer patients.

Ellen P. Neff
Special Features24 Mar 2020
Lab Animal

Volume: 49, P: 101-104
Animal behavior on auto

Researchers can’t sit their laboratory mice or fruit flies down and ask them how they’re feeling or why they’re behaving in a particular way. Instead, humans are left to observe and interpret the various clues their animals provide. Can machines help?

Ellen P. Neff
Special Features13 May 2019
Lab Animal

Volume: 48, P: 157-161
Nonhuman primate neuroimaging opens up

To bridge brains and make the most of their nonhuman primate models, neuroscientists are setting standards, building tools, and starting to share their neuroimaging data.

Ellen P. Neff
Special Features24 Apr 2020
Lab Animal

Volume: 49, P: 139-143
Animal models of Alzheimer’s disease embrace diversity

Alzheimer’s disease remains untreatable, despite decades of preclinical research to understand it better and find therapeutic targets. New ways of thinking about a variety animal models are rising to the challenge.

Ellen P. Neff
Special Features19 Aug 2019
Lab Animal

Volume: 48, P: 255-259