When I was a little girl taking piano lessons, we lived in an old house with a dark, scary basement where mice frequently ...

People inherit two copies of each gene—one from each parent—an evolutionary fail-safe to ensure survival even when one of ...

The antibiotic switched on the PAK1 gene only in the mice’s beta cells, triggering them to produce the PAK1 protein. A second ...

Highland deer mice and their lowland cousins ventured on a simulated seven-week ascent to 6,000 meters. By tracking how the mice responded to cold stress and progressively lower oxygen levels, the ...

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch.

The researchers behind the current study, therefore, wanted to create a detailed atlas of different types of nerve cells ...

Teams of mountaineering mice are helping advance understanding into how evolutionary adaptation to localized conditions can enable a single species to thrive across diverse environments.

Their research focused on mice, which exhibit this same shaking behavior ... They discovered that the C-LTMR neurons connect to a specific group of neurons in the spinal cord, which then relay the ...

On a July flight from Detroit to Amsterdam, some Delta passengers were served spoiled meals from a Do & Co kitchen. The allegedly moldy chicken sickened more than a dozen fliers. Out of utmost caution ...

Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA ...