Julia Griffin

Wastewater recycling and other water-efficiency programs are saving aquifers and helping a famed produce industry thrive.

Researchers studying itchy mice determine that separate neurons deliver sensations for itchiness and pain.

Growing a new tooth in the jawbone of a mouse provides the first fully functional organ grown in any animal by transplanting so-called ‘germ cells.’

The death spiral for global fish that has been reported with glum glee by the media can be reversed, according to a blue-ribbon panel of marine scientists.

Even as species disappear at an accelerating rate, intrepid researchers are finding rodents previously unknown to science.

In demonstrating that embryonic stem cells may not be the experimental bottleneck as they are often seen, researchers have created live mice from mouse skin.

It takes two to tango, but do it poorly and you end up dancing with yourself.

Ultraviolet sunlight exposure in the third trimester of pregnancy may be related to increased height and bone health of children.

Oh, sure, they look pretty, but don’t be fooled. Some flora will explode in your face, some will take over the earth if left unchecked, some could kill you or make you wish you were dead. Here is a top 10 list of the planet’s evil greens.

What the Human Genome Project did for sequencing the genes of human DNA, the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium has now accomplished for the furry rodent for which this blog is named.

The good news is that endangered whales can be found where they were thought extinct. The bad news is that a sea-going superhighway may soon overtake their unknown refuge.

Think the world is a healthier place now that McDonalds has salads and yogurt on the menu? Think again.

Who ya gonna call when your tank’s on ‘E,’ the topsoil’s salty or there’s too much TNT? The 10 plants Miller-McCune.com believes can save the world, that’s who.

A body of research from “Healing Honey” author Lynne Chepulis shows that honey can have a role in aiding weight loss, immune response and memory improvement.

Users of public transportation often fit in the activity guidelines proposed by the federal Health and Human Services department, just by walking to their bus or train every day.

Forget campaign ads and stump speeches, apparently all we really need to see during an election are the candidates themselves.

Excessive atonement can result from inextinguishable guilt, report two researchers who have named the effect after a perpetually apologetic character from the Harry Potter series.

It being that bit of plastic perfection’s 50th birthday today, Miller-McCune.com takes a look at the wealth of research on Barbie.

A researcher’s analysis of five decades of vacationing anglers’ snapshots shows that in Key West, the game fish species are getting smaller — a finding pointing to the decline of global fisheries.

In a Miller-McCune.com interview, Marian Wright Edelman of the Children’s Defense Fund explains why tackling poverty, education and health care during this financial crisis makes economic sense.

Time to stir up the nature-versus-nurture debate a bit.

Ah, the groundhog. Largest, and arguably most adorable, form of squirrel in our country.

Gas and grease are longtime guilty pleasures of Americans, but research now shows expanding waistlines are partly to blame for our rising bills at the gas pump.