Researchers are beginning to understand how the mammalian hippocampus processes navigational information. “What’s emerging in the field in general are efforts to figure out . . . the dimensions in the hippocampus to map location,” Howard Eichenbaum of Boston University told The Scientist.
Stanford University scientists have shown that, in blind mice, combining visual stimulation and chemical activation of mTOR can lead retinal ganglion cells to regenerate, partially restoring vision.
Microbes in the gut can impact a mouse’s stroke recovery, researchers at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany, and their colleagues have shown.
Excavating overfarmed topsoil and replacing it with a thin layer of donor soil from arable lands can speed up landscape restoration, largely because of the bacteria, fungi, and roundworms transferred with the dirt, scientists from the Netherlands Institute of Ecology reported.
Scientists at Imperial College London and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health this ...
