BrainStorm’s NurOwn May be Able to Help Autism
BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics, an Israeli developer of adult stem cell technologies for neurodegenerative diseases, announced positive results from preclinical studies of its NurOwn in the BTBR mouse model More...
MUV Interactive’s Bird Makes teaching Easier
Israeli startup, MUV Interactive, a developer of intuitive interaction technology solutions that enable displayed content to be utilized from anywhere in a room, will showcase its flagship product, More...
Utah U. Study: Fructose More Toxic than Table Sugar in Mice
When University of Utah biologists fed mice sugar in doses proportional to what many people eat, the fructose-glucose mixture found in high-fructose corn syrup was more toxic than sucrose or table sugar, More...
Weizman Institute Presents: Human Primordial Cells Created in the Lab
Groups at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Cambridge University have jointly managed the feat of turning back the clock on human cells to create primordial germ cells – the embryonic cells that give rise More...
Genetic Factors for Surviving Ebola Shown in Mouse Study
A newly developed mouse model suggests that genetic factors are behind the mild-to-deadly range of reactions to the Ebola virus. People exposed to Ebola vary in how the virus affects them. Some completely resist More...
Sweden gets two new sightings, as hunt for undersea intruder goes on
– STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s military is working on two new observations that could be evidence of suspected “foreign underwater activity” near the country’s capital, More...
Discovery: Pheromones Regulate Aggression of Non-Mother Female Mice toward Pups
– Laboratory mice are one of the most common animal models used in biological and medical research. Thousands of laboratory mouse strains are produced by artificial selection – the process by which humans More...
Exploring 3-D Printing to Make Organs for Transplants
– Printing whole new organs for transplants sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, but the real-life budding technology could one day make actual kidneys, livers, hearts and other organs More...
Study Finds Bacteria that Prevent Obesity in Mice
– Other studies have demonstrated that the natural gut microbiota plays a role in obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. – A probiotic that prevents obesity could be on the horizon. Bacteria More...
New Research: The Social Psychology of Mice – is Mickey Really Like Us?
– – /By Ilan Shavit/ New research at the Weizmann Institute shows that mice that have been raised in a stimulus-rich environment have less complexity in their social interactions than those growing More...