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 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 ...

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 ...

Researchers are working to create the first strain of mice that's genetically susceptible to late-onset Alzheimer's, with potentially transformative implications for dementia research. Mice don't get ...

A promising target The Schwarz Lab's study, recently published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, shows that deleting or disabling a single protein—SARM1—can preserve RGCs and maintain vision ...

Understanding the shape or morphology of neurons and mapping the tree-like branches via which they receive signals from other ...

VAS‑101, a skin gel containing curcumin, was shown to partially reverse impairments to the powerhouses of cells in the hearts ...

The Bar Harbor lab is the first research institution in Maine to be awarded a grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H.

Scientists saw that a trio of supplements improved brain connectivity and social behaviour in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) ...

In the wild, a mouse or rat leads a precarious life. In the city, they dodge traps, poisons, and broom-wielding humans. In the countryside, they face owls, shotguns, and more poison. As Australia’s ...