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TL;DR: A 2026 review summed up years of studies that filmed brain cells lighting up in living mice bred to develop Alzheimer’s-like disease. Some cells fired far more than normal, especially near the protein clumps typical of Alzheimer’s, while others went sil…
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TL;DR: Mouse studies of spinal muscular atrophy have reported anywhere from no loss to 60% loss of motor neurons, and a German-American team found that which slice of spinal cord gets counted explains much of that spread. Counting the right segments with a rel…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in The Journal of Physiology found that steady-state Purkinje-cell firing patterns had limited ability to predict cerebellar nuclei output in mouse models of cerebellar movement disease. Key Findings 5 disease models: The reanalysis used in…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Genes & Diseases found that Il6 deficiency, meaning loss of the gene for interleukin-6, worsened Parkinson’s-like motor and dopamine-system injury in mice. Key Findings Il6 knockout worsened movement: Mice lacking Il6 performed worse aft…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Nature Neuroscience from Baylor College of Medicine showed that boosting Sox9, a transcription factor that regulates aging astrocytes, improved astrocytes’ ability to clear amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s mouse models and preserved cognit…
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