News tagged with lab mice

Study could aid development of new drugs to treat gout

Findings from a Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine study could lead to the development of new drugs to treat gout. The study, led by Liang Qiao, MD, and his colleagues and collaborators, was published March ...

Immunology Mar 19, 2013 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Uncovering a flaw in drug testing for chronic anxiety disorder

Pre-clinical trials—the stage at which medications or therapies are tested on animals like laboratory mice—is a crucial part of drug development. It's only then that scientists can assess benefits and side effects before ...

Medical research Dec 13, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Stem cells can be harvested long after death: study

Some stem cells can lay dormant for more than two weeks in a dead person and then be revived to divide into new, functioning cells, scientists in France said Tuesday.

Medical research Jun 12, 2012 | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 3

Researchers search public databases, flag novel gene's key role in type 2 diabetes

Using computational methods, Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have strongly implicated a novel gene in the triggering of type-2 diabetes. Their experiments in lab mice and in human blood and tissue samples ...

Genetics Apr 09, 2012 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0 |

New lab mice cut search for genetic links to disease by more than a decade

With a 95 percent genomic similarity to humans, mice have long been used to learn about the genetic causes of human disease. Once researchers can shine a light on the genetic factors that cause disease in mice, they can start ...

Genetics Apr 05, 2012 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0 |

Genetic studies of special mice could lead to rapid human health advances

Genetic information provided by a large group of specially-designed mice could pave the way to faster human health discoveries and transform the ways people battle and prevent disease.

Genetics Feb 16, 2012 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Common bacteria cause some colon tumors by altering peroxide-producing gene

Working with lab cultures and mice, Johns Hopkins scientists have found that a strain of the common gut pathogen Bacteroides fragilis causes colon inflammation and increases activity of a gene called spermine oxidase (SMO) ...

Cancer Nov 05, 2011 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Interrupted sleep takes toll on memory formation, study says

A new study seems to confirm what exhausted parents have long suspected but may have been too tired to articulate:

Health Jul 28, 2011 | 2 / 5 (1) | 1

New evidence on easing inflammation of brain cells for Alzheimer's disease

New research proves the validity of one of the most promising approaches for combating Alzheimer's disease (AD) with medicines that treat not just some of the symptoms, but actually stop or prevent the disease ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia Oct 03, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0