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 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 ...

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 ...

Antibody therapies work in part by binding to Fc receptors, proteins found on immune cells that control key immune functions such as antibody-mediated cell killing and inflammation. Since these ...

"This model is important because it is the first in the world to demonstrate the protective effect of the Icelandic mutation against amyloid pathology in animals," says Sasaguri. Using their new mouse ...