Researchers in Japan found that estrogen produced within the brain, called neuroestrogen, suppresses appetite and reduces ...

Bringing mice to an enclosure and zapping their feet with tiny electric shocks, then bringing the mice back to the enclosure ...

A new 3D 'atlas' of the mouse brain promises to sharpen scientists' ability to measure brain changes and share findings across studies of diseases like Alzheimer's. The mouse brain atlas combines ...

A new "atlas" developed by researchers at Duke University School of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, ...

2025 — A scientific technique that rapidly increases the body's production of anti-inflammatory cells promoted healing from heart attacks in mice, according to a new study. Once adapted to treat ...

Here, the authors show that nitro-oleic acid restores mitochondrial function and improves heart failure symptoms in a mouse model of HFpEF. Schmidt et al. use Mendelian randomization to identify ...

Linda Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for NPR and the host of Pop Culture Happy Hour. She began her professional life as an attorney. In time, however, her affection for writing, popular ...

Part spoof and part serious, the film is about mythmaking as much as it is about music. The result is delightfully destabilizing. By Alissa Wilkinson During every scene of this western, I couldn ...

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