Billions of birds share the planet with us. With their flamboyant plumage and joyous dawn serenades, many of them are impossible to miss. But how did they get here, how did they break the bounds of ...

We tend to think of the brain as being made up of highly specialised cells, but a study in mice suggests that most neurons ...

Polyphenols are natural chemicals that plants make to protect themselves. Berries, tea, cocoa, coffee, whole grains, and ...

For decades, Alzheimer’s research has focused on clearing the sticky amyloid plaques that build up in the brain. Those drugs can slow the disease, but only modestly, and they do little to stop the ...

Alzheimer's has long been mysterious to researchers, particularly how tau proteins travel between neurons, but we may have ...

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Scientists at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI), in collaboration with ZEISS and MetaCell, have developed a powerful new imaging pipeline called Neuroplex. Published in eLife, ...

Summary: A major technological leap has shattered a long-standing limitation in behavioral neuroimaging. Researchers introduced Neuroplex, an imaging pipeline capable of simultaneously tracking the ...

Living organisms are made up of hundreds of thousands of cells that cooperate to create the organs and systems that breathe, eat, move, and think. Now, researchers from Japan have developed a new way ...

Two Miami researchers have learned how to “rescue” malfunctioning brain cells linked to autism spectrum disorder by restoring the electrical signals that allow neurons to communicate. Their ...

Microscopy is an imaging technique that enables us to see a world that would otherwise be invisible to us. Once upon a time, visualizing cells, microbes and other entities not perceptible to the naked ...