In recent years, the field of optogenetics has provided a new alternative of utilizing light to stimulate genetically engineered neurons. While the original approach proposed the use of tethered ...

In a study of mice, MIT neuroscientists have now discovered that these hypotheses are explicitly represented in the brain by distinct neural activity patterns. This is the first time that neural ...

Male mouse fetuses can develop female organs in utero if their mother is iron deficient during pregnancy, a study in Nature reports 1. This is the first-known example of a dietary mineral ...

Iron deficiency in mice mothers can sometimes result in their offspring developing female sex organs despite having male sex genes, according to new research. Although genetics has been thought to ...

A new study published in the journal Scientific Reports explored the effectiveness of combined bacteriophage-gene therapy in a mouse melanoma model. Each year, there are more than 132,000 new ...

A single Neanderthal gene slipped into lab mice triggered unexpected changes in their skeletons. Scientists in Japan uncovered traits echoing long-lost human cousins. In mice, the effects were visible ...

Using a technique called base editing, the team introduced single-letter changes into the middle of the repeated stretch of DNA, interrupting the sequence in patient cells and mouse models of ...

Summary: New research reveals that mice use not only touch but also sound to navigate their environments through whisking. These whisker-generated sounds are processed by the auditory cortex, even ...

Summary: Tracking the same neurons in the brain over time has long challenged neuroscientists using calcium imaging in freely moving mice. A new analytical tool called CaliAli overcomes these ...