With no known cure, Alzheimer's Disease is still the most common form of dementia and a leading cause of death among people 65 and older. Now, a team of Israeli researchers have made progress with a finding that may help diagnose the disease as early as at the age of 30, and treat it accordingly.

What causes a member of a group to be more dominant and how are social structures formed? A new study uses mice to shed light on these questions and also offers insight into autism.

Things are looking up for aging mice and, if this research pays off, for aging humans, too. Researchers found that the anti-aging protein sirtuin can make male mice live about 16 percent longer than average, which could pave the way for humans as well.

Prolor Biotech Inc. reported positive results in a study of its new version of the hemophilia drug Factor VIIa-CTP in a pre-clinical trial on mice. The study showed that mice which received the longer-acting version of the drug showed a higher survival and recovery rate over a longer period of time, compared to those that […]