The concept of “cryosleep” has always been considered a far-fetched reality. To one’s surprise, the idea is shifting from the ...

As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment. For decades, animals like mice, rats and pigs have been essential tools in ...

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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 ...

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

A team of researchers in Germany has frozen adult mouse brain tissue at cryogenic temperatures and, after thawing it, recorded electrical activity that closely resembled normal function. The work, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over consecutive trials, the mice would turn the wheel left for a bit, then switch to turning it right, seemingly making mistakes ...

In a series of experiments, researchers found that a communication pathway between the brain and the gut may be integral to ...

Researchers found that very small numbers of gut bacteria can translocate to the brain in mice, particularly when gut barrier ...