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12/17/2025

From work meetings to first dates, it's essential to adjust our behavior for success. In certain situations, it can even be a matter of life or death. So how do we switch our behavior when situations change?

12/17/2025

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12/12/2025

A research team co-led by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and West China Hospital Sichuan University (WCHSU), working with partners in the UK, has demonstrated a nanotechnology strategy that reverses Alzheimer's disease in mice.

12/01/2025

Stanford Engineering scientists have developed a reversible, noninvasive technique to observe neuron formation and firing in juvenile mice.

12/01/2025

A history of mouse models

11/09/2025

🧠🔬 New Alzheimer’s treatment successfully cleared plaques from the brains of mice within just hours, offering a promising new direction for fighting the disease.

In a study led by researchers in China and Spain, scientists injected mice with specially designed nanoparticles that didn’t just deliver drugs—they actually repaired part of the brain’s natural waste-clearing system.

Specifically, they targeted the blood-brain barrier, a protective layer that usually blocks harmful substances from entering the brain but can also trap waste like amyloid-beta plaques, which are linked to Alzheimer’s.

In mice engineered to show signs of Alzheimer’s, just three injections caused amyloid plaques to shrink by nearly 45% within hours. After a full course of treatment, the mice’s memory and learning abilities returned to normal, and the improvements lasted at least six months.

Instead of trying to force drugs through the blood-brain barrier, as past treatments have done, this team treated the barrier itself as the problem—repairing its ability to remove harmful protein buildup from the brain.

The nanoparticles acted like tiny engineers, targeting a specific protein called LRP1, which helps clear waste from the brain. By fixing this “traffic system,” the treatment jump-started the brain’s ability to clean itself.

Scientists describe this process like a chain reaction: once the barrier starts working again, the whole system begins to rebalance, allowing other harmful molecules to be cleared as well. More research is still needed to confirm the treatment’s effectiveness in humans.

This approach of 'repairing' the brain's own systems is fascinating. What are your thoughts on this new direction for research?

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10/04/2025

Such empathetic behavior is great in life but wreaks havoc in drud trials, hence the need for automation.

A new study finds that mice will sniff, lick and pull the tongue of other mice that are under anesthesia, serving to open their airways

10/04/2025

Such emotive behavior is why automation in the lab is so important.

A new study finds that lab mice perform a suite of likely innate behaviors towards unconscious mice that help them revive faster.

10/04/2025

Back in time…

09/07/2025

Transference of depressive symptoms into rodents via gut bacteria. Fascinating study.

09/05/2025

09/05/2025

Basics on housing and husbandry:

Information to help refine the housing and husbandry of the laboratory mouse.