Dopamine—a neurotransmitter responsible for influencing motivation, pleasure, mood and learning in the brain—has experienced ...

An innovative and scalable proximity labelling method profiled proteins present in the Caenorhabditis elegans brain during learning, identifying known regulators as well as novel biological pathways.

New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest ...

Micro- and nanoplastics are increasingly detected in human tissues, including the brain, and experimental evidence suggests ...

An estimated 10 million Americans have osteoporosis, AKA brittle bone disease. The disease, caused by a combination of hormonal, genetic and lifestyle conditions (lack of estrogen, not doing ...

Cats are smarter than we think. Experts explain how feline intelligence works and how high a cat’s cognitive ability can reach.

Degradable pacemakers and artificial neurons showcase how flexible, tissue-compatible electronics are revolutionising medicine. But translating these materials from lab bench to clinic requires solvin ...

Although the human brain has been an object of scientific fascination for centuries, we are just scratching the surface in terms of our understanding of its functionality and complexity. We have a ...

These parkin knockout (KO) mice were generated by creating a germline disruption in the parkin gene within exon 3 leading to a truncated transcript coding for the first 95 amino acids of mouse parkin ...

Organized Sports in Teen Girls Linked to Lower Breast Cancer Risk Markers: Study Just 2 hours of weekly organized teen sports ...

For decades, multiple sclerosis (MS) has been defined primarily by its symptoms, rather than its underlying biology. Now, a ...

Experiencing multiple acute stresses at the same time, as in natural disasters or mass shootings, can leave lasting memory scars. New research from the University of California, Irvine suggests that ...