Selecting an appropriate mouse model is one of the most important ... If that’s the case, you only have one option, an animal with a human immune system. How do the rodent models offered by ...

Few species have benefited from humans as much as the house mouse, Mus musculus. Native to the Indian subcontinent, the mouse simply accompanied humans on their migrations, conquering every continent ...

“Mice are a good model for human obesity . . . but it seems to me that, for diet, the mouse literature has gone off track,” said Craig Warden, who studies the genetics of body fat accumulation at the ...

THIS is the moment a courageous mouse shows emergency-like responses by giving “mouse-to-mouse” CPR to a fellow rodent. Scientists captured the human-like behaviour in a series of experiments ...

Using an animal model of multiple sclerosis (MS ... a nonhuman primate. Compared to mouse brains, marmoset and human brains have a higher ratio of white matter (the "wires" of the brain) to ...

Researchers have developed eye drops that extend vision in animal models of a group of inherited diseases that lead to progressive vision loss in humans, known as retinitis pigmentosa.

UCSC scientists have used CRISPR to develop programmable embryoids that can be used to study early embryo development and ...