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Cells long thought to play a secondary role in brain function build their own far-reaching connections, a new study in mice showed. These pathways appear to connect distant regions in ways that have ...

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Researchers have developed a cutting-edge technique that uses RNA “barcodes” to map how neurons connect, capturing thousands of links with single-synapse precision. The method transforms brain mapping ...

Reviving a frozen brain sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel, but a new study gives clues to how scientists might one day do that. Researchers in Germany managed to freeze mouse-brain tissue in ...

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment, and the brain later in life, investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine and ...

Clumps of mouse brain cells about the size of peppercorns can gain the knowhow to perform a virtual circus trick. With some coaching, these mouse brain organoids learned to keep a pole upright on a ...

The retro animation-inspired FPS Mouse: P.I. For Hire will launch on April 16, and Fumi Games and PlaySide Studios have revealed their plans for the various digital and physical versions of the game.

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