The mouse's current appeal as a model for human disease has its origins in the historical selection and breeding initiatives used for producing offspring with specific traits. Numerous mutants ...

This review discussed experimental mouse models used in the pre-clinical study of liver fibrosis regression, a pivotal ...

This model allowed ... bar for healthy mice, researchers are now better equipped to assess subtle changes in balance performance, allowing for much greater precision in studying the early effects of ...

They created a mouse model that recapitulates the early non-motor symptoms as well as the motor difficulties in Parkinson's disease in a manner that directly mimics the condition in many patients.

Attempts to discover a breakthrough dementia drug might be drawing attention these days, but traditional medicinal products ...

Researcher creates a groundbreaking genetic model for breast cancer, offering new insights and potential advances in ...

A Michigan State University researcher's new model for studying breast cancer could help scientists better understand why and ...

Why do mice have tails?The answer to this is not as simple as you might think. New research from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology ...

Researchers created a mouse model to study liver symptoms of myotonic dystrophy type 1, revealing how toxic RNA in the liver ...

More information: Zachary Dewald et al, Altered drug metabolism and increased susceptibility to fatty liver disease in a mouse model of myotonic dystrophy, Nature Communications (2024).

In healthy brains, immune cells called microglia patrol for damage, clearing away debris and harmful proteins. But in the presence of the APOE4 protein-;the most important genetic risk factor for ...