COLUMBUS, Ohio – Research led by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine explores the ways brain cells communicate, revealing fresh insight into the progression of ...

A protein known as MPS1 helps to ensure that a key process during cell division of oocytes—unfertilized egg cells—occurs in a timely manner, RIKEN biologists have discovered. This finding in mice may ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Swarms of microbes from female mice have been found to influence brain development in the offspring they give birth to. Mice bred in a germ-free ...

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- IDEAYA Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDYA), a leading precision medicine oncology company, today announced they have enrolled their first ...

Common shrews are one of only a handful of mammals known to flexibly shrink and regrow their brains. This rare seasonal cycle, known as Dehnel's phenomenon, has puzzled scientists for decades. How can ...

High-fat diets and obesity reshape astrocytes—star-shaped brain cells in the striatum that help regulate pleasure from eating. French researchers discovered that tweaking these cells in mice not only ...

Both for research and medical purposes, researchers have spent decades pushing the limits of microscopy to produce ever deeper and sharper images of brain activity, not only in the cortex but also in ...

A New Jersey woman has been given a second chance at life, thanks to a new cancer therapy. Pamela Goldberger, 65, found out in 2023 that she had glioblastoma — a devastating diagnosis with an average ...

The gut is sometimes referred to as a second brain, since it harbors its own nervous system, which is known as the enteric nervous system. The gut is not only directly linked to the brain through the ...

The federal government is looking for researchers who can, in 5 years, develop stem cell treatments to repair brain damage caused by stroke, neurodegeneration, and trauma. The Functional Repair of ...

CARLISLE — In what it hopes will be an academics-first step, Carlisle Area School District will implement a classroom cell phone ban at Carlisle High School this year. The new policy — outlined to the ...