Our Impact

The early successes of engineered polymeric materials known as hydrogels in animal models represent a new way to heal intestinal damage — a process that one day might be applied to other injured organs.

Using an animal model, U-M researchers have found that a novel drug combination disrupts multiple factors in an aggressive type of breast cancer.

New research using a large animal model hopes to uncover new diagnostic and resuscitative strategies for this difficult-to-treat condition.

Discovering a puddle of mouse urine seems like a strange scientific “eureka” moment. But for one research team, it’s exactly what led to a new discovery.

New study conducted by U-M, Yale researchers underscores the importance and relevance of the mouse for studying influenza with aging.

A high-dose antioxidant regimen helps slow one type of genetic hearing loss in mice. Researchers hope to learn whether it could someday be used to treat the most common cause of childhood deafness.

Some animals are able to regrow tissues lost to injury or disease. Zebrafish do this in their retinas, which are remarkably similar to our own. So do humans also have these tools to repair a diseased retina? If so, what are they?

Researchers from the U-M Medical School and the FDA have published a new study that shows the key role of excess gut calcium in awakening C. diff spores; a discovery that could ultimately lead to better patient treatment.

A team of U-M researchers has developed a novel mouse lung transplant model of chronic rejection to test if two new therapeutic treatments would decrease the scarring process in lung transplant patients.

Why do so many babies fall victim to infections that invade the gut but others don't? Research in germ-free mice yields important clues.