Mouse pups produce ultrasonic vocalizations, called isolation USVs, when they are separated from the nest. It's a survival mechanism—baby mice need their parents to regulate their temperature and feed ...

Laboratory mouse pups are commonly weaned between postnatal day 21–28. Utilization of an exact wean date postpartum is a concrete metric for mouse colony management, but variation can result such as: ...

The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center image: Noboru Hiroi, PhD, and collaborators are studying which mouse pup cries are most predictive of the pups developing autism spectrum ...

The first things that mouse newborns touch and eat establishes their native microbiome, which is often influenced by their mother during birth and throughout nursing. Although diet has been a known ...