Scientists have mapped the activity that takes place across a mouse's entire brain as it decides how to complete a task - and ...

The first complete activity map of the brain has been unveiled by a large international collaboration of neuroscientists. The ...

It sounds like science fiction. Scientists take ordinary skin or blood cells, rewind them to a stem-cell state, then ...

The origin of mice as a standard model system for scientific research can extend back to the 1700s when people recorded how they domesticated and bred mice. This early mouse husbandry led to varieties ...

Caltech researchers have developed a powerful new method for creating embryo-like structures from stem cells that could ...

In 2021, her laboratory partnered with Synbal, Inc., a preclinical biotechnology company based in San Diego, CA, to develop multi-gene, humanized mouse models for COVID-19 research.

Miniature models of the brain have revealed a "previously unappreciated" role of microglia, a type of cell found within the organ. The finding could help unpack how disorders such as autism arise.

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 ...

Prime editing corrects the most common genetic mutations that cause alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC), a rare and severe neurological disorder.

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 ...