How stress stops hair growth (in mice)
When faced with incredible stress, people sometimes shed hair by the handful, but scientists don’t know exactly why that is. …
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Hormone helps prevent muscle loss in mice on high fat diets, study finds
A new study suggests that a hormone known to prevent weight gain and normalize metabolism can also help maintain healthy …
Study finds COVID-19 attack on brain, not lungs, triggers severe disease in mice
Georgia State University biology researchers have found that infecting the nasal passages of mice with the virus that causes COVID-19 …
Anticoagulants reduce the number of brain metastases in mice
Brain metastases can only develop if cancer cells first exit the fine blood vessels and enter into the brain tissue. …
Study in mice shows genes may be altered through drug repurposing
Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have published a study showing a promising approach to using drug repurposing to …
Persistence of Zika virus in the brain causes long-term problems in mice
The Zika virus can remain in mouse brain for extended periods, leading to long-term neurological and behavioral consequences, according to …
Lethal brain infections in mice thwarted by decoy molecule
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a molecule that protects mice from brain infections …
New way to halt leukemia relapse shown promising in mice
Researchers have identified a second path to defeating chronic myelogenous leukemia, which tends to affect older adults, even in the …
New molecule stops drug cravings in mice, with fewer side effects
Duke University researchers have developed a synthetic molecule that selectively dampen the physiological rewards of cocaine in mice. It also …
Gene editing successfully used to treat cervical cancer in mice
The Griffith University scientists used CRISPR-Cas9 to successfully target and treat cervical cancer tumours in vivo (via injection into live …
Remodeling unhealthful gut microbiomes to fight disease
You are what you eat — right down to the microbiome living in your gut. Diet can affect which microbes …
Memory T cells shelter in bone marrow, boosting immunity in mice with restricted diets
Even when taking in fewer calories and nutrients, humans and other mammals usually remain protected against infectious diseases they have …
Why initial UTIs increase susceptibility to further infection: Prior infections can cause lasting changes to bladder’s immune response
More than 60% of women will experience a urinary tract infection (UTI) at some point in their lives, and about …
Gut microbes may affect the course of ALS: Researchers isolated a molecule that may be under-produced in the guts of patients
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have shown in mice that intestinal microbes, collectively termed the gut microbiome, may …
New study challenges claim that exogenous RNA is essential for sperm function
Scientists from the University of Bath are challenging the claims of two high profile papers from 2018 which reported that …
Unhealthy gut promotes spread of breast cancer: Disrupting gut bacteria had profound, sustained effects, making cancer more aggressive
An unhealthy, inflamed gut causes breast cancer to become much more invasive and spread more quickly to other parts of …
Antibiotics can slow down the development of symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease
Treatment with antibiotics slows down the development of Alzheimer’s symptoms In a new study by researchers from the USA has …
Probiotic-derived molecule may suppress fatal brain inflammation, preclinical study finds: Scientists explore how swallowing a ‘bacterial envelope molecule’ may prime your body to fend off viral infections
The existence of certain microorganisms in your gut may bolster the immune system’s ability to fend off a herpes viral …