In the November 21 Neurobiology of Disease, researchers led by Cristiano Corona, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Turin, Italy, characterize the ALS-like ...

Neuroscience research commonly relies on the use of rodent and non-human primate models. Recently published work suggests that domesticated miniature pigs may mark a middle ground model, with the ...

A team of scientists has established a 'knock in' pig model of Huntington's disease (HD), an inherited neurodegenerative disease, anticipated to be useful for testing treatments. Using genetic ...

The creation of a new pig model accurately reflects the types of cancer seen in human cells, reflecting the gene mutations and pathways most often observed in human cancer. The model will aid ...

In much of today’s biology research, the humble lab mouse is thought of as the ‘gold standard’ of physiological relevance—after all, we can’t experiment on humans, and mice are the next best thing, ...