Highland deer mice and their lowland cousins ventured on a simulated seven-week ascent to 6,000 meters. By tracking how the mice responded to cold stress and progressively lower oxygen levels, the ...

Recent research identifies 16 human nerve cell types, revealing complex sensory responses and challenging traditional views ...

Obesity causes insulin resistance by increasing activation of the sympathetic nervous system and the release of the stress hormone norepinephrine, according to a new study.

Scientists at McGill University, Canada , may have found a key to treating the neurological disease - by transplanting brain ...

“Amid such profound squalor and chaos, the mice forgot how to be mice. They ceased to breed, and their population collapsed,” ...

Intermittent fasting has its benefits but extending living beings’ lifespan might not be one of them, according to a recent ...

Teams of mountaineering mice are helping advance understanding into how evolutionary adaptation to localized conditions can enable a single species to ...

Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking cancer treatment that works like a precision-guided missile with a powerful immune ...

Scientists discovered a mechanoreceptor that triggers the distinctive shake-off behavior observed in mice when they become ...