In the November 21 Neurobiology of Disease, researchers led by Cristiano Corona, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Turin, Italy, characterize the ALS-like ...

A team of scientists has established a 'knock in' pig model of Huntington's disease (HD), an inherited neurodegenerative disease, anticipated to be useful for testing treatments. Using genetic ...

Neuroscience research commonly relies on the use of rodent and non-human primate models. Recently published work suggests that domesticated miniature pigs may mark a middle ground model, with the ...