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Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz have trained lab-grown clusters of mouse brain cells to balance a ...

In a series of experiments, researchers found that a communication pathway between the brain and the gut may be integral to how well the brain holds on to memories. The genesis for the study came ...

University College London (UCL) researchers have achieved a fascinating leap in neural decoding. The ...

Two independent research teams have successfully regenerated mouse brain circuits in mice using neurons grown from rat stem cells. Both studies, using interspecies blastocyst complementation to study ...

Mice lacking an olfactory system have had their sense of smell restored with neurons from rats, the first time scientists have successfully integrated the sensory apparatus of one species into another ...

Credit: Youtube Scientists once connected living rat brain cells to a robot in a laboratory in London. The cells, kept alive in a nutrient bath, sent signals through electrodes to steer the robot's ...

Humans and many other animals can innately recognize familiar objects in their surroundings, irrespective of the angle they are observed from, changes in lighting or other shifts in the surrounding ...

The drugs have names that sound like small planets: semaglutide, liraglutide, lixisenatide. Collectively, they belong to a class of glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) analogs that has reshaped the ...

What does it feel like to be a rat? We will never know, but some very unusual mice may now have an inkling. In a series of new experiments, bits of rat brain grew inside the brains of mice. Donor stem ...

A high-fat diet can cause the intestinal lining to weaken, allowing live gut bacteria to travel directly to the brain in mice ...

German scientists successfully revived frozen mouse brain tissue after a week, proving memory functions survive cryopreservation for the first time.