They then tested these variants, along with regular insulin and long - acting insulin, in mice engineered to have an insulin deficiency. (sciencedaily.com)
They reached this conclusion during studies of mice engineered to build up protein fragments in their brains known to cause the disease. (scientificamerican.com)
When injected into mice engineered with a tau mutation that makes the protein clump abnormally in brain cells, triggering memory and motor problems, the antibodies reduced the clumping and improved the animals» behavior. (scientificamerican.com)