Animal disease models articles within Nature

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  • Outlook |

    Despite some outstanding drug-development successes, the mouse version of multiple sclerosis has been worryingly unreliable at screening human treatments.

    • Jocelyn Rice

  • World View |

    Many of the studies that use animals to model human diseases are too small and too prone to bias to be trusted, says Malcolm Macleod.

    • Malcolm Macleod

  • Technology Feature |

    Monitoring technologies and genetic engineering are producing a growing array of animal models for psychiatric disorders, but researchers are still learning how best to use them.

    • Monya Baker

  • Outlook |

    The lack of a good animal model is frustrating efforts to curb disease progression, explains M. Flint Beal.

    • M. Flint Beal

  • Opinion |

    Many researchers avoid using female animals. Stringent measures should consign this prejudice to the past, argue Irving Zucker and Annaliese Beery, in the third piece of three on gender bias in biomedicine.

    • Irving Zucker
    •  & Annaliese K. Beery

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