Six tubes, each with black dots representing flies, each fly encircled in blue, green, or red.
| 4 min read
Increasing levels of the protein Trio preserved synaptic function and motor abilities in aging flies.

synapses

Conceptual dot-based image of an eye on a predominantly blue background.

On-Again, Off-Again Connections Advance Eye Regeneration

Brain cell in purple on a black background. Arc mRNAs are labeled green and are mainly localized in the cell nucleus and in the dendrites.

Short-lived Molecules Support Long-term Memory 

Headshots of three people smiling and looking at camera.

2023 Brain Prize Awarded for Research on Synaptic Plasticity

Artist’s rendition of a neuron silhouetted against a glowing red background.

SNO-y Protein Levels Help Explain Why More Women Develop Alzheimer’s

Blue glowing neuron projections

Silent Synapses May Provide Plasticity in Adulthood

Portrait of Chuck Stevens

Famed Neuroscientist Charles Stevens Dies at 88

a section of a rat brain is imaged in dull green. a much brighter green human organoid takes up a large portion of the left side of the brain.

Researchers Transplant Human Neurons into Rat Brains

Neurons in all sorts of different colors, some glowing

How Fear Restructures the Mouse Brain

black-and-white brain scan showing tumor

Glioblastoma Cells Imitate Immature Neurons to Invade the Brain

Trending

Photo of John Calhoun crouches within his rodent utopia-turned-dystopia

Universe 25 Experiment

A close-up image of a fly landing on a dessert

What Happens When a Fly Lands on Your Food? 

A brown dog stares at a spoon of peanut butter in front of its face with wide eyes.

Why Do Dogs Love Peanut Butter?

A woman pulls on her dark hair, showing graying roots. She looks frustrated, representing how stress can cause hair to go gray prematurely.

How Does Stress Cause Gray Hair?

Multimedia

Golden geometric pattern on a blue background, symbolizing the precision, consistency, and technique essential to effective pipetting.

Best Practices for Precise Pipetting

Integra Logo
Various cell culture containers, including dishes and flasks, filled with media and stacked inside an incubator.

Optimizing Cell Culture Workflows

Eppendorf logo
Image of a woman with her hands across her stomach. She has a look of discomfort on her face. There is a blown up image of her stomach next to her and it has colorful butterflies and gut bacteria all swarming within the gut.
November 2025, Issue 1

Why Do We Feel Butterflies in the Stomach?

These fluttering sensations are the brain’s reaction to certain emotions, which can be amplified or soothed by the gut’s own “bugs".

View this Issue
Golden geometric pattern on a blue background, symbolizing the precision, consistency, and technique essential to effective pipetting.

Best Practices for Precise Pipetting

Integra Logo
Olga Anczukow and Ryan Englander discuss how transcriptome splicing affects immune system function in lung cancer.

Long-Read RNA Sequencing Reveals a Regulatory Role for Splicing in Immunotherapy Responses

Pacific Biosciences logo
Research Roundtable: The Evolving World of Spatial Biology

Research Roundtable: The Evolving World of Spatial Biology

Conceptual cartoon image of gene editing technology

Exploring the State of the Art in Gene Editing Techniques

Bio-Rad

Products

Labvantage Logo

LabVantage Solutions Awarded $22.3 Million U.S Customs and Border Protection Contract to Deliver Next-Generation Forensic LIMS

The Scientist Placeholder Image

Evosep Unveils Open Innovation Initiative to Expand Standardization in Proteomics

OGT logo

OGT expands MRD detection capabilities with new SureSeq Myeloid MRD Plus NGS Panel