When a fruit fly sniffs out a chemical scent, the signal travels to its little brain where a newly discovered circuit quickly transforms that information into a physical response. The feat takes just ...

Far from being sick, motor neurons in a mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy are actually raring to fire. Unfortunately, they do not receive the signals telling them to do so. So conclude the ...

All animals need a means by which to distinguish sensory inputs caused by their own movements from sensory inputs that are due to sources in the outside world. One such means is provided by corollary ...

Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced plans to gradually reduce animal testing in the development of new monoclonal antibody drugs. As alternatives to animal ...