Researchers at the Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at Tel Aviv University have developed a model that accurately ...

Prof. Moran Hausman-Kedem, a pediatric neurologist involved in the research, emphasized the clinical value of the model: “For rare diseases where patient populations are too small for large-scale ...

Inhibition of LKKR2 may rescue neurons that are dying due to a type of Parkinson’s disease that is caused by a single genetic mutation.

Scientists at The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) have developed mouse models that survive premature death and enable pre-clinical ...

In this disease model of HD, the targeted knockdown of the Htt (huntingtin) protein mRNA knockdown approach, triggers characteristic HD-related deficits, including increased cell death (acridine ...

The UCLA advance opens the door to growing other vascularized organ models, including intestines and colons, providing ...

While this small, striped fish is commonly found in home aquariums, zebrafish also are a valuable animal model for human disease due to fast growth, large clutch sizes and easy genetic manipulation.

A disease model is an animal or cells displaying all or some of the pathological processes that are observed in the actual human or animal disease. Studying disease models aids understanding of ...