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Father's diet linked to metabolic disease
Recent research in mice has found a link between a father's diet and the health of offspring, revealing new ways to approach the...
Gege Li
Jun 17, 20241 min read
How prostate cancer spreads
A study from Denmark, using genetically altered (GA) mice has uncovered a crucial gene involved in the spread of prostate cancer to other...
Nuno Gonçalves
Jun 10, 20241 min read
How gut bacteria affect health, using mice
Two US studies have used mice to shed light on the remarkable effects of gut bacteria, both on improving cancer treatment and in the...
Gege Li
Jun 10, 20242 min read
‘Bubbles’ in cells can help cancer treatment
Research from Sweden has used ‘bubbles’, that are released by cells as messengers, to develop a potentially more effective way to target...
Nuno Gonçalves
Jun 3, 20241 min read
Treating bone cancer with immunotherapy
A new type of immunotherapy, based on engineered immune cells, has successfully treated mice with bone cancer, raising the possibility...
Gege Li
Jun 3, 20241 min read
Progress in treating diabetes
Animal studies from Australia and the US have developed new ways to manage and effectively treat type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is an...
Gege Li
Jun 3, 20242 min read
HIV vaccine approach shows promise
A US strategy for developing a vaccine for HIV, based on training the immune system, is providing hope for an effective future treatment....
Gege Li
May 28, 20241 min read
Sex differences & autoimmune disease
French researchers think that changes to the X chromosome in female mice could explain why women are more likely than men to be affected...
Gege Li
May 24, 20241 min read
Better blood thinning medication
Research from Switzerland and Australia, using tsetse flies, has uncovered a new way to prevent blood clotting that can also be easily...
Nuno Gonçalves
May 20, 20241 min read
Editing heart cells for research
Researchers have used a genetic technique to edit the heart muscle cells of mice, potentially making it a better method of research into...
Gege Li
May 20, 20241 min read
Neuron-sized implant could help restore vision
Researchers have developed a microscopic electrical implant, tested in mice, which holds the potential to restore vision for people who have
Gege Li
May 13, 20241 min read
How the spinal cord can ‘learn’ and respond
Researchers in Belgium, using mice, have uncovered how the spinal cord can learn and memorise responses to possible threats, without needing
Gege Li
Apr 22, 20241 min read
Chlamydia vaccine in human trial success
Following animal studies, an experimental vaccine for chlamydia has been shown to be safe and able to generate an immune response in humans.
Gege Li
Apr 22, 20241 min read
Insights into mouth-stomach connection
The development of the connection between the food pipe and stomach has been described in a study using mice and lab-grown tissues,...
Gege Li
Apr 15, 20241 min read
Mice with human cells shed light on kidney disease
Researchers in Singapore have made advances in understanding kidney disease by using 'organoids', grown from human kidney cells, and...
Nuno Gonçalves
Apr 15, 20241 min read
The role of immune cells in Alzheimer's
Mice with transplanted human brain cells may provide an improved way to study the development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Researchers,...
Gege Li
Apr 8, 20241 min read
Does gum disease speed up pancreatic cancer?
Gum disease may accelerate the development of pancreatic cancer, a new study in mice has shown, suggesting a direct link between oral...
Gege Li
Mar 28, 20241 min read
Tour of Dutch animal facility highlighted
As part of a series of website blog interviews at Radboud University Medical Center, its animal research facility has opened its doors to...
Bob Tolliday
Mar 28, 20241 min read
Blindness from eye disease linked to the gut
Gut bacteria may be the cause of blindness from certain eye diseases, an international study in mice has found. Led by University College...
Gege Li
Mar 25, 20241 min read
Mice study provides new hope for infertility
Researchers in the US are pioneering a technique that could revolutionise in vitro fertilisation (IVF) by creating eggs from skin cells....
Nuno Gonçalves
Mar 18, 20241 min read
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