Scientists at the University of Sydney have uncovered a malfunctioning version of the SOD1 protein that clumps inside brain ...

Researchers in Japan have successfully generated lung cells similar to alveolar epithelial type 2 (AT2) cells from mouse ...

Researchers have long focused on the STING (Stimulator of Interferon Genes) pathway as a way to harness the immune system's ...

UC San Diego scientists have created a gene therapy that goes beyond masking Alzheimer’s symptoms—it may actually restore ...

The Synaptic Physiology laboratory, led by Juan Lerma at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University (UMH) of ...

The compound betaine, which becomes more abundant in men who take up jogging, could confer some of the anti-ageing advantages ...

Nanoplastics can compromise intestinal integrity in mice by altering the interactions between the gut microbiome and the host, according to a paper in Nature Communications. The study explores the ...

Japanese researchers have generated lung cells directly from mouse tissue. These lung cells are called Alveolar Epithelial ...

On June 23rd a Chinese team presented the most complete attempt yet. In a paper published in PNAS, a journal, they report ...

Mice can use specialised muscles to move their whiskers in patterns. They can also do this by turning their head. This behaviour is called whisking.

A new study in Nature shows that when pregnant mice don’t have enough iron, their (usually male) fetuses with a Y sex chromosome sometimes develop ovaries instead of testes. In other words ...

Researchers in Japan have successfully generated lung cells similar to alveolar epithelial type 2 (AT2) cells from mouse embryonic fibroblasts without using stem cell technology.