Retinitis pigmentosa retinal degeneration is caused by a family of hereditary mutations in nearly 100 genes that slowly lead to blindness over years or decades. One of those genes encodes the enzyme ...

A remote fear memory is a memory of traumatic events that occurred in the distant past - a few months to decades ago. A University of California, Riverside, mouse study published in Nature ...

Elevated core body temperatures may cause bursts of inflammation in individuals with rare autoinflammatory mevalonate kinase deficiency (MKD) via a unique molecular mechanism, reports a study ...

DALLAS – May 20, 2014 – A lean "Supermodel" mouse type has revealed the potentially critical role played by a largely unknown gene that regulates metabolism, findings that could provide new insight ...