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Scientists traced 1,000 neurons through the mouse brain, uncovering new details about how the organ is wired.

Mutations within the MS4A gene cluster have been linked to changes in protein levels that affect disease risk.

The sei ion channel in fruit flies keeps their neuronal excitability in check.

Two-photon imaging captures chemical signaling between live mouse neurons on a millisecond timescale.

A device implanted into mice can modulate brain circuit activity over long periods of time.

Using super-resolution microscopy, scientists learned how mutant tau causes a memory-related protein to clump up in mouse neurons.

Carbon dioxide pumped into a bright chamber mimics a breathing host for the pest to target.

The brain wiring behind scent processing seems to scale across mammalian species.

A 3-D printed prosthetic hand moves by reading the signals in forearm muscles.

Watch Princeton University’s Nicholas Turk-Browne describe his research on how the human brain makes, stores, and adjusts memories.

A newly developed imaging technology visualizes entire mouse brains in two and three dimensions using multicolor fluorescence microscopy.

A gene helps motor neurons successfully venture out from the spinal cord to muscles during mouse development.

A study in rats finds that tiny doses of the psychedelic drug DMT may yield positive effects for anxiety and depression, but there could be downsides too.

Researchers have implanted electronics masquerading as neurons in the brains of mice.

A missing microRNA leads to degenerating neurons and blindness in a fruit fly.

The same group of neurons encode both actual motion and movement perceived in an optical illusion, according to a study on macaques.

The eel-like lamprey can return to normal swimming and burrowing after suffering a severed spinal cord twice.

At playtime together, parents’ brain activity mimics that of their infant children.