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.

“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 ...

Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...

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

A specialized model used by researchers is becoming a valuable tool for studying human brain development, diseases and ...

Scientists at Harvard University are proposing a fundamental change in the way we consider psychedelics and their therapeutic ...

An international team, led by researchers at the Champalimaud Foundation (CF), has shown—for the first time in a realistic ...

and the researchers behind this project say that the mouse brain is similar enough to the human brain that they can even extrapolate things about us. A cubic millimeter sounds tiny—to us ...