Recent studies suggest that animals and people alike have close and complex relationships with the bacteria around and within ...

If humans or animals eat something that causes them to feel unwell, they subsequently avoid this food source. Until now, it ...

A zebra finch can fit in the palm of your hand, but its brain is doing something that looks almost unruly. Inside one part of ...

Researchers suggest tunneling may reflect a conserved strategy adopted by specialized migratory cell types in dense tissues.

Brain function has traditionally been interpreted within a neuron-centric framework; however, this view has shifted toward a model of neuron-glia ...

Northwestern University engineers printed artificial neurons that don't just imitate the brain—they talk to it. In a new ...

How do we learn to avoid bad food? Researchers found that fat cells signal the brain using dopamine to trigger "conditioned ...

How does the gut talk to the brain? A new study identifies polysaccharides and peptidoglycans as the key bacterial signals ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara are coming ever closer to uncovering the neural circuitry that translates stimulus to action, shining light on previously unseen neural connections and lesser-known ...

Northwestern University engineers printed artificial neurons that don't just imitate the brain - they talk to it.