The mammalian liver has an extraordinary regenerative capacity, capable of fully restoring its mass and function after injury ...

A team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical ...

A recent study suggests that an ingredient in energy drinks may actually cause cancer cells to grow quickly. Everything to ...

Broad Institute researchers have developed a way to edit the genetic sequences at the root of Huntington's disease and ...

The mystery for this 21-year-old patent was not that he had fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, but that he'd lived so ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown that gonadotrophs, cells in the pituitary gland with a key role in ...

Finally, the in vivo relevance of these regulators and their potential as reactive astrocyte targeted therapeutics is determined using mouse genetics and mouse models of disease. Ultimately, my lab ...

The Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Mouse Models Core at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) produces, characterizes and exports various Cystic Fibrosis Mouse Models for CF research. In addition to providing ...

As an undergrad, I was very excited by courses I took in developmental biology and genetics. At that time, the most exciting work was going on in the fruit fly. But I knew I didn’t want to work in the ...

Raising and breeding the hybrid animals, they say, could imperil living animals used as surrogates. “While we know a lot about mouse genetics, we know much less about mammoths and elephants. It isn’t ...

Scientists looking to bring the extinct woolly mammoth back to life have made adorable progress—using gene editing to create a "woolly mouse." The team at genetics and biotech firm Colossal ...

De-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences has gene-edited mice to have mammoth-like features, creating what the company calls the Colossal Woolly Mouse. The lab mice, which have been modified to ...