professor and Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Chair for Glaucoma Research at JAX, who led the research. "Observing how aging occurs in one strain of mice might not be relevant to all mice – or ...

Originally collected on the island of Castania and brought to JAX in 1971, CAST mice were bred at JAX to maintain a genetically pure line, creating a model as true to the mouse genome as possible.

At Jackson Laboratory (JAX), biologists are investigating the link between addiction and overdose and genetics using lab mice. Historically, scientists will only use one breed of mice to ...

Using CRISPR gene editing, they collaborated with Sasner and Howell at JAX to introduce different genetic factors associated with Alzheimer's into 11 separate strains of mice, and raised the mice ...

Now, in a long-awaited study appearing in the Oct. 9 issue of Nature, scientists at The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) and ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Li Zhang, professor of physiology and neuroscience at USC's Keck School of Medicine, how mice perform first aid on each other. The instinct to help a fellow creature runs ...