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New transgenic mouse model with human brain immune cells

Breakthrough will allow scientists to understand more profoundly how Alzheimer's disease progresses

06-Aug-2019

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MODEL-AD is an ongoing collaborative project launched in 2016.

MODEL-AD's goal is to produce 40 prospective mouse models for using in Alzheimer's research.

UC Irvine for the first time produced an animal containing functional and growing human microglia.

Research was done by the University of California.

New research was published in the journal Neuron.

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Mathew Blurton-Jones

Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior at University of California.

Neuron

Scientific Journal providing information about neuroscience.

University of California

Public research university with 10 campuses and 5 medical centres

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Alzheimer's Disease