Scientists discovered years ago that the hypothalamus—which helps to manage body temperature, hunger, sex drive, sleep and ...

Researchers at Brown University and Cincinnati Children’s found that suppressing opsin 3 in the brain of mice makes them eat ...

A recent study reveals that age plays a significant role in the outcomes of intermittent fasting. Researchers discovered that chronic intermittent fasting disrupted the development of ...

Dravet syndrome and other developmental epileptic encephalopathies are rare but devastating conditions that cause a host of ...

Understanding why we always have room for dessert could lead to new treatments for obesity, researchers have revealed.

The brains of birds and mammals have diverged substantially during the course of evolution. A research team at the Center for Molecular Biology of ...

Mice with microplastics in their blood performed less well than their plastic-free peers on movement, memory, and coordination tests, pointing to impaired brain function. Microplastics are defined as ...

Pain is an example of an important sensory neuron. When you feel pain from a hot pan or a sharp pin, you are sending sensory information via sensory neurons up to the brain. The flow of electrical ...

Mice were deeply anesthetized with isoflurane and transcardially perfused with ice-cold saline, followed by 4% paraformaldehyde (PFA). Brains were harvested, post-fixed in 4% PFA, and embedded in ...

Discovering mice in your house can be unsettling - and it's more common than you might think. According to the British Pest Control Association (BPCA), there are about 80,000 callouts for mice each ...

When the weather gets cold, mice seek shelter and that often means cozy kitchens where heat and food are plentiful -- just ask the administration for these four Boston-area schools that were ...

For the first time, scientists have tracked microplastics moving through the bodies of mice in real time 1 ... become lodged in blood vessels in the brain. It’s not clear whether such ...