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How gut bacteria affect health, using mice

Gege Li

Jun 102 min read

How gut bacteria affect health, using mice

Two US studies have used mice to shed light on the remarkable effects of gut bacteria, both on improving cancer treatment and in the...

‘Bubbles’ in cells can help cancer treatment

Nuno Gonçalves

Jun 31 min read

‘Bubbles’ in cells can help cancer treatment

Research from Sweden has used ‘bubbles’, that are released by cells as messengers, to develop a potentially more effective way to target...

Gege Li

Jun 31 min read

Treating bone cancer with immunotherapy

A new type of immunotherapy, based on engineered immune cells, has successfully treated mice with bone cancer, raising the possibility...

Gege Li

Jun 32 min read

Progress in treating diabetes

Animal studies from Australia and the US have developed new ways to manage and effectively treat type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is an...

Gege Li

May 281 min read

HIV vaccine approach shows promise

A US strategy for developing a vaccine for HIV, based on training the immune system, is providing hope for an effective future treatment....

Gege Li

May 241 min read

Sex differences & autoimmune disease

French researchers think that changes to the X chromosome in female mice could explain why women are more likely than men to be affected...

Nuno Gonçalves

May 201 min read

Better blood thinning medication

Research from Switzerland and Australia, using tsetse flies, has uncovered a new way to prevent blood clotting that can also be easily...

Gege Li

May 201 min read

Editing heart cells for research

Researchers have used a genetic technique to edit the heart muscle cells of mice, potentially making it a better method of research into...

Neuron-sized implant could help restore vision

Gege Li

May 131 min read

Neuron-sized implant could help restore vision

Researchers have developed a microscopic electrical implant, tested in mice, which holds the potential to restore vision for people who have

Hybrid brain replaces sense of smell in mice

Nuno Gonçalves

May 131 min read

Hybrid brain replaces sense of smell in mice

US scientists have transferred the sense of smell from rats into the brains of purpose-bred mice, in a world first.

How the spinal cord can ‘learn’ and respond

Gege Li

Apr 221 min read

How the spinal cord can ‘learn’ and respond

Researchers in Belgium, using mice, have uncovered how the spinal cord can learn and memorise responses to possible threats, without needing

Chlamydia vaccine in human trial success

Gege Li

Apr 221 min read

Chlamydia vaccine in human trial success

Following animal studies, an experimental vaccine for chlamydia has been shown to be safe and able to generate an immune response in humans.

Gege Li

Apr 151 min read

Insights into mouth-stomach connection

The development of the connection between the food pipe and stomach has been described in a study using mice and lab-grown tissues,...

Mice with human cells shed light on kidney disease

Nuno Gonçalves

Apr 151 min read

Mice with human cells shed light on kidney disease

Researchers in Singapore have made advances in understanding kidney disease by using 'organoids', grown from human kidney cells, and...

Gege Li

Apr 81 min read

The role of immune cells in Alzheimer's

Mice with transplanted human brain cells may provide an improved way to study the development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Researchers,...

Does gum disease speed up pancreatic cancer?

Gege Li

Mar 281 min read

Does gum disease speed up pancreatic cancer?

Gum disease may accelerate the development of pancreatic cancer, a new study in mice has shown, suggesting a direct link between oral...

Tour of Dutch animal facility highlighted

Bob Tolliday

Mar 281 min read

Tour of Dutch animal facility highlighted

As part of a series of website blog interviews at Radboud University Medical Center, its animal research facility has opened its doors to...

Blindness from eye disease linked to the gut

Gege Li

Mar 251 min read

Blindness from eye disease linked to the gut

Gut bacteria may be the cause of blindness from certain eye diseases, an international study in mice has found. Led by University College...

Mice study provides new hope for infertility

Nuno Gonçalves

Mar 181 min read

Mice study provides new hope for infertility

Researchers in the US are pioneering a technique that could revolutionise in vitro fertilisation (IVF) by creating eggs from skin cells....

Covid-19 vaccine technology to treat rare disease

Gege Li

Mar 131 min read

Covid-19 vaccine technology to treat rare disease

A therapy, based on the same messenger RNA (mRNA) technology used in Covid-19 vaccines, has successfully corrected a rare liver disease...

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