Researchers have shown in mice that brain cells known as astrocytes are required for a signaling chemical called norepinephrine to modify brain activity, changing the textbook understanding that ...

For the first time, researchers revived fully functional mouse brain tissue from cryopreservation. The secret sauce: ...

To do so, Papouin and his team stimulated norepinephrine secretion from mouse brain cells or exposed mouse brain slices to norepinephrine and found that norepinephrine weakened connections between ...

Astrocytes, an often overlooked brain cell, rewires connections between brain cells during periods of heightened vigilance or attention.

Rather than neurons, brain cells known as astrocytes take charge in shaping response to signal involved in vigilance, mouse study shows Peer-Reviewed Publication WashU Medicine ...

The slice of code — a stretch of DNA that acts like a dial to turn up the expression of certain genes — expanded the outer layer of the mouse brain by increasing the production of cells that ...

Currently, the researchers are using CRISPR-TO to move endogenous RNAs – RNA molecules that are naturally produced within the ...