The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a set of cooperative agreements, totaling up to $52 million over five years, to launch the Knockout Mouse Project. The goal of this program is to ...

BETHESDA, Md. – As part of its ongoing effort to build a public, genome-wide library of "knockout" mouse models for the study of human disease, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today awarded ...

What would you say if I told you there’s a way to turn fat into muscle? Too good to be true, right? Not so fast—new research from the National Institutes of Health shows that it might be possible. Let ...

Genetically altered mice are valuable tools in biomedical research. The Mutant Mouse Resource and Research Center, located at UC Davis and supported by a grant from NIH, has been providing a national ...

An intact population of microorganisms that derive food and benefit from other organisms living in the intestine is required for optimal response to cancer therapy, according to a mouse study by ...

A team of scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) used gene editing to fix the mutation that causes a form of the rare Tay-Sachs disease in mice, sparking hope that the approach could ...

The government shutdown is likely to mean an early death for thousands of mice used in research on diseases such as diabetes, cancer and Alzheimer's. Federal research centers including the National ...

Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have removed a major roadblock to better understanding of mpox (formerly, ...

Laboratory mice play an important role in medical research. A $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to the UC Davis Mouse Biology Program will enable the breeding and distribution ...