Medical researchers have used animals, particularly mice, to mimic disease and study biological phenomena. The origin of mice as a standard model system for scientific research can extend back to the ...

Researchers have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50 percent in a mouse model of the fatal neurodegenerative condition. The treatment, which uses ...

The gut contains the largest collection of immune cells in the body. New research at the Buck Institute shows that some of ...

Researchers at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine recently made an important advance in neurodegenerative disease ...

Genetically altered mice are valuable tools in biomedical research. The Mutant Mouse Resource and Research Center, located at UC Davis and supported by a grant from NIH, has been providing a national ...

The first complete activity map of the brain has been unveiled by a large international collaboration of neuroscientists. The ...

Caltech researchers have developed a powerful new method for creating embryo-like structures from stem cells that could ...

Infants born with alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC) begin experiencing episodes of paralysis and seizures by the time they are a few months old, followed by developmental delays and ...

Scientists from UC Davis Center for Surgical Bioengineering, the MIND Institute and UC Berkeley's Murthy Lab are developing ...

In a revealing preclinical study, the weight-loss drug tirzepatide—already known for fighting obesity and diabetes—unexpectedly slowed the growth of breast cancer tumors in obese mice. Researchers ...