Fully autonomous home-cage training system HABITS enables mice to learn complex cognitive behaviors without human intervention, expanding behavioral paradigms and optimizing training efficiency ...

Scott LaValley, CEO of Cartwheel Robotics, says robot makers should prioritize social acceptance over capabilities ...

A new study published in PNAS offers evidence that certain brain cells involved in regulating stress do not simply respond to threats, but operate on a repeating internal rhythm—roughly once every ...

The gut contains the largest collection of immune cells in the body. New research at the Buck Institute shows that some of those immune cells travel along the brain/gut axis in a mouse model of ...

Almost five months after being selected for the DBT Biocare programme, an initiative by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) to encourage women scientists, none of the 75 chosen candidates has ...

One of those genes encodes the enzyme DHDDS, part of the pathway that glycosylates proteins in higher cells. Retinitis pigmentosa from DHDDS mutations is called RP59. This is a recessive genetic ...

Aubrey de Grey describes his plan to get combinations of promising aging damage-repair approaches. Aging is accumulated molecular and cellular damage from metabolism, leading to pathology. He ...

This report calls on those who oversee the funding and implementation of PTSD research to reject animal-based research on ...

Nearly six decades after its invention, the design of the computer mouse has remained largely unchanged - with serious consequences for users. A new study led by Jose Berengueres, Associate Professor ...

Animal Aid will also debunk the myths around the use of mice in research.Even if an animal is small, if we are unfamiliar with how they live in the wild or if they are not popular with the public, ...

Trinity College Dublin has acquired a new €2m state-of-the-art wearable brain scanner which it has described as a "gamechanger" for brain research in Ireland. The country's first OPM-MEG scanning ...