Stores of glucose in the brain could play a much more significant role in the pathological degeneration of neurons than ...

After years of debate, scientists provided new evidence for the lifelong birth of human brain cells, which may inform future ...

Scientists have found evidence of new brain cells sprouting in adults - a process that many thought only occurred in children ...

A study in the journal Science presents compelling new evidence that neurons in the brain's memory center, the hippocampus, ...

The UCLA advance opens the door to growing other vascularized organ models, including intestines and colons, providing ...

New research reveals that sugar metabolism in brain cells may be a crucial defense against Alzheimer’s and related dementias.

FlyBase, the world's only fruit fly database, is in the crosshairs of Trump's attack on Harvard. Here's why it could matter ...

Drosophila research: first ridiculed, then admiredThomas Hunt Morgan has now been studying flies in his "fly laboratory" at Columbia University for two years. Day after day, the trained geneticist ...

The likely brain drain of U.S.-employed scientists moving to other countries occasioned by President Trump and Elon Musk’s firings and reductions in force is yet another example of their seeming ...

Abstract Synaptic connectome of the Drosophila circadian clock The circadian clock and its output pathways play a pivotal role in optimizing daily processes. To obtain insights into how diverse ...

The manuscript presents an ambitious and comprehensive synaptic connectome of neurosecretory cells (NSC) in the Drosophila brain, which highlights the neural circuits underlying hormonal regulation of ...

With 140,000 neurons, 50 million synapses and over 100,000 cell label annotations, the fruit fly brain has been mapped and published in a series of papers written by scientists worldwide, including ...