Over the past few decades, biomedical researchers and neuroscientists have devised increasingly advanced techniques to study ...

A USC-led team has engineered the most advanced synthetic kidneys to date by merging nephron and duct organoids into ...

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 ...

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 ...

Infants born with alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC) begin experiencing episodes of paralysis and seizures by the time they are a few months old, followed by developmental delays and ...

Pioneering embryologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov reported that his team has encountered hurdles in creating functional human eggs ...

Genetically altered mice are valuable tools in biomedical research. The Mutant Mouse Resource and Research Center, located at UC Davis and supported by a grant from NIH, has been providing a national ...

Molecular profiling has transformed cancer care, but 30% of high-risk pediatric cancers do not have actionable therapeutic ...

Lab-grown brain cells improved stroke recovery in mice by repairing circuits and reducing damage. Human trials could follow within 5–7 years.