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 at Mass General Brigham in Boston have designed a custom gene editing technique that corrected the mutation ...

Scientists have developed six lines of humanized mice that can serve as valuable models for studying human cases of COVID-19. Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have developed six ...

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 ...

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

"Young" immune cells created by Cedars-Sinai investigators reversed signs of aging and Alzheimer's disease in the brains of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...