Lab platform models human organs to test cancer drug toxicity without animals

Overcoming acquired treatment resistance is one of the major challenges in the fight against cancer. While combination ...
Gut

Secondary bile acid production by gut bacteria promotes Western diet-associated colorectal cancer

Background Western diet and associated production of secondary bile acids (BAs) have been linked to the development of ...
eLife

Niche exclusion of a lung pathogen in mice with designed probiotic communities

This study reports a valuable method to predict the capacity of a candidate probiotic bacterium to metabolically outcompete a bacterial pathogen in the ecological niche of the murine respiratory tract ...
Medical Xpress

Singing mice speak volumes: Brain mechanisms behind song production explored in new research

All mice squeak, but only some sing. Scotinomys teguina, aka Alston's singing mice, hail from the cloud forests of Costa Rica. More than 2,000 miles north, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) ...
EurekAlert!

Singing mice speak volumes

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Assistant Professor Arkarup Banerjee and colleagues find that songs and ordinary vocalizations both arise from the midbrain caudolateral periaqueductal gray (clPAG), seen ...
Futurism

Scientists Intrigued by Old Drug That Reverses Signs of Alzheimer’s in Mice

The next new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease may be an already-existing drug, according to a team of researchers in Japan. In a series of experiments, administering an oral dose of an amino acid ...