The team suspects that neurogenesis happens in other parts of the adult brain, too. In mice, new neurons are regularly made ...

This useful study presents a biologically realistic, large-scale cortical model of the rat's non-barrel somatosensory cortex, investigating synaptic plasticity of excitatory connections under varying ...

Organ-on-a-chip systems offer a more accurate, ethical, and scalable alternative to animal testing in drug discovery and ...

Animals, from worms and sponges to jellyfish and whales, contain anywhere from a few thousand to tens of trillions of nearly ...

Insulin-producing human pancreas cells can be manufactured with 3D printers, researchers reported at the International Transplant Congress underway in London.

Imagine that you want to know the plot of a movie, but you only have access to either the visuals or the sound. With visuals ...

Research led by the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing has discovered that switching on a single dormant ...

For me, the most fascinating part is the fact that such a group of animals managed to adapt to different habitats, which ...

We were trying to learn how certain animals lost their regeneration capacity during evolution and then put back the ...

A recent discovery could transform our understanding of bone health maintenance and pave the way for potential treatments for ...

Imagine losing a limb and growing it back like nothing ever happened. Sounds like science fiction? Not for many animals in ...

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...