The slice of code — a stretch of DNA that acts like a dial to turn up the expression of certain genes — expanded the outer ...

Many brain functions, particularly the senses, are similar across different mammal species.

Scientists at the Allen Institute, a research center in Seattle, then sliced that piece of the mouse’s brain into more than 25,000 layers, each a tiny fraction of the width of a human hair ...

“The human brain is another factor of 1,500 or so larger than a mouse brain, and so that brings a whole host … of technical and ethical barriers to doing that,” he said. However, it might be ...

The researchers describe it as a foundational step, similar to how the Human Genome Project's initial gene mapping ultimately led to gene-based treatments. Mapping an entire mouse brain is one of ...

Information gathered in just one cubic millimeter of a rodent’s cerebral cortex will help unravel the complex neural networks behind cognition ...

University of Edinburgh team uses live brain slices to reveal how tiny protein imbalances can trigger Alzheimer’s-like damage ...

Jiang and his team have been developing and using chimeric brain models for nearly a decade. He and other lab members focus ...