Researchers have shed light on an unusual resistance to cancer displayed by the naked mole rat, a burrowing, long-lived desert-dwelling rodent. In these animals, a cell growth switch absent in more ...

NYU Langone’s Advanced Rodent Transgenics Laboratory assists researchers in generating mutant mice for experimental use.

Rats and mice are often used as cancer models—meaning cancer is induced in these animals to study the progression of the disease and potential treatments in hopes of translating the findings into ...

Better design of rodent trials could reduce the cost and time required for cancer drug development, according to a commentary in the October 28 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer ...

Naked mole rats have a maximum lifespan of almost 40 years, making them the world’s longest-living rodent - and now scientists are working out why. A new study has revealed that the subterranean ...

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Obesity is a worldwide epidemic, costing billions of health care dollars in cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, etc. In the area of cancer, obesity, which is usually associated with a high ...

Very cagily did Dr. Edward Sigfrid Sundstroem of the University of California Medical School at Berkeley report last week that experimentally he had cured laboratory-developed cancer in rats by ...

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This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women, with most ...