The albino laboratory rat with its red eyes and white fur is an iconic model organism for scientific research in a variety of fields. Laboratory rats or lab rats are strains of the rat subspecies Rattus norvegicus domestica (Domestic Norwegian rat) which are bred and kept for scientific research.

2019年2月27日 · For decades, lab rats and mice have been used to make great scientific and medical advances, from cancer drugs and HIV antiretrovirals to the yearly flu vaccine.

2021年7月24日 · The laboratory rat is commonly used as an experimental model in biomedical research. Characteristics such as short life span, ease of breeding, short generation time, and requirement of smaller space have made laboratory rats as …

Laboratory rats play an important role in biomedical research across a range of therapeutic areas. Closely related to the human genome, laboratory rats are widely used in preclinical toxicology, immunology, cardiovascular, and behavioral studies.

2023年2月11日 · Why are they running through mazes, pushing levers to receive treats or being placed into rat-sized guillotines? The history of the lab rat dates back centuries, and the sequencing of the rat genome in the early 2000s means …

Lab Rats is an American comedy television series created by Chris Peterson and Bryan Moore that aired on Disney XD from February 27, 2012 to February 3, 2016. The series stars Billy Unger, Spencer Boldman, Kelli Berglund, Tyrel Jackson Williams, and Hal Sparks.

This wide-ranging review explores the history of laboratory rats, their uses and how they compare with their wild counterparts. The conclusion is that laboratory rats retain sufficient physiological and behavioral characteristics of wild rats to be suitable as animal models for many questions.

Numerous researchers performed experimental investigations in albino rats and estimated, in general, while considering their entire life span, that a human month resembles every-day life of a laboratory rat.

2022年4月19日 · Recently laboratory rats have helped show how science can exterminate their plague-carrying dock and alley kin. A bacterial culture, known as “ratinin,” has been discovered that kills rats but...

2024年8月20日 · For the past decade or so dozens of labs, start-ups and nonprofit groups have pursued alternative methods that range from machine-learning tools that predict chemical toxicity to living...