Rats May Help Unravel Human Drug Addiction Mysteries
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Rats can become drug addicts. That's important to know, scientists say, and has taken a long time to prove...
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Sniffer rescue dogs trained to find explosives or earthquake survivors buried in rubble may soon have some competition -- rats.
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Researchers seeking new treatments for heart disease managed to grow a rat heart in the lab and start it beating.
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Scientists in China have identified about 400 genes that appear to make some people more easily addicted to drugs, opening the way for more effective therapies and addiction control.
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Researchers have discovered why scratching an itch may be so addictive.
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Cocaine users' brains have a different structure that could affect their judgement, a study suggests.
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Researchers seeking new treatments for heart disease managed to grow a rat heart in the lab and start it beating
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Genetically altered mice that are  unusually sensitive to nicotine may help scientists nail down  exactly how people become addicted to smoking, U.S. researchers  said on Thursday.
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Scientists have said for decades that nicotine is a major addictive component in cigarettes. But exactly how chemical dependency results from nicotine&#39;s interaction
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Researchers may have located the area in the brain that separates the stamp collectors from the pack rats.
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Rat researchers finds males prefer mates who don't give up the goods right away -- could be waiting for sex makes for a stronger neuro-chemical pleasure payoff. Plus:  Too much TV could hamper sex. In Sex Drive Daily.
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WASHINGTON - Researchers in California, using genetically modified mice, say they&#39;re closing in on understanding exactly what makes nicotine in tobacco so addictive.
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An interesting approach to curbing alcoholism is tested on rats.
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America's growing reliance on drugs may have blurred the line between what is cheating and what isn't.
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NEW YORK  - Researchers may have located  the area in the brain that separates the stamp collectors from  the pack rats.
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Cocaine addicts have a smaller amygdala -- a brain structure that helps people judge the consequences of their actions -- than non-addicted people, claims research in the current issue of Neuron.
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U.S. researchers say they have coaxed hearts from dead rats to beat again in the laboratory and said the discovery may one day lead to customized organ transplants for people.