Schizophrenia is one of the most common serious mental health conditions in the UK, affecting 1 in 2000 people at some time in their lives.
When people stagger after drinking too much ethanol has caused reversible ataxia – a loss of muscular co-ordination.
Research on mice has shown that uninterrupted sleep is vital for memory consolidation.
A few weeks ago it was announced that researchers have created genome-wide, high-resolution genetic maps of 100 inbred mouse strains.
Monya Baker has given us a good and useful read. Her article in Nature provides many examples of animal models for human conditions and gives a clear appraisal of their value.
Brain cancers caused by malignant gliomas account for around 3,000 deaths in the UK each year.
Salmonella poisoning typically causes diarrhoea.
New research using mouse models has shown that glial cells, which protect and support neurons in the brain, play a central role in preventing the severe symptoms of Rett Syndrome.
Researchers are preparing for clinical trials of the first inexpensive oral treatment for Trypanosomiasis, the parasitic disease commonly known as sleeping sickness that is transmitted to humans by the tsetse fly.
About one in 30,000 boys are born with a defective gene that causes haemophilia B.
A vaccine containing a broad spectrum of tumour antigens delivered in a virus vector successfully treated 8 out of 10 mice with prostate cancer.
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