Previously, his team grew “a rat pancreas, heart and eyes in a developing mouse… human cells and tissues in early ... “In theory, for diseases where primate models are not good enough, making ...

There are hundreds of different cell types that make up the human body, each derived from a single origin: the fertilized egg. Researchers investigating how this complexity arises have made ...

A brand new virus, which may be able to jump to humans, has been detected in a mouse in Florida ... "It grows equally well in rodent, human, and nonhuman primate (monkey) cells, making it a ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) remains a uniquely human disease. Dozens of preclinical arthritis models have been developed in a variety of species (e.g. mouse, rat, rabbit and monkey) that involve ...

So, a rat is not a monkey is not a human. Studying the behaviour of rodents is valid ethological and neurobiological work, and animal welfare is certainly important. However, it is the pain of ...

Our main current effort is on Parkinson's disease (PD). We have developed protocols to derive midbrain dopamine neurons from human ES and iPS cells capable of engraftment in mouse, rat and monkey ...