Researchers at MIT have uncovered a powerful way the brain "unlearns" fear: through a dopamine-driven reward signal. By ...

Researchers show how mice fed a Western-style diet are not able to rebuild a 'healthy,' diverse gut microbiome following antibiotic treatment. These mice were also more susceptible to infection by ...

A scientific team has created a serum that neutralizes the venom of 19 of the most lethal species, such as the black mamba or ...

A study of human tumor cells implanted in mice from the MacPherson Lab at Fred Hutch describes a new way to screen for the ...

Crispr-Cas9 is a tool for making precise edits in DNA, discovered in bacteria. The acronym stands for 'Clustered Regularly ...

The National Institutes of Health has closed the last beagle laboratory on its campus, according to National Institutes of ...

New research from NC State reveals that different protein sources in animal diets can dramatically alter the gut microbiome, ...

Mice whose MTCH2 proteins were silenced, or deleted, developed increased athletic capacity – they grew more muscle fibers, ...

The modern Western-style diet—high in processed foods, red meat, dairy products, and sugar—alters the composition of the gut microbiome in ways that ...

The scope of the presented studies is somewhat limited, as they primarily focus on evaluating the phenotypic changes in cardiac innervation following the loss of various Slit or Robo genes.