What causes sudden aggression? A new study identifies the LH-DRN brain circuit that triggers physical attacks in mice.

Cheap and cheerful, without feeling cheap.

For two decades, a team of researchers cloned mice from successive generations of clones until the new clones were no longer ...

In animal societies as in human ones, some individuals regularly produce resources while others appropriate them. Contrary to ...

In the Interdisciplinary Science and Education Complex on Northeastern's Boston campus, models of human bones line shelves ...

When defending their territory, male mice typically appear threatening before launching an attack, ensuring that aggression ...

Science Connected Magazine is an editorially independent, non-profit newsroom producing open-access science journalism and ...

A small device implanted just beneath the skin, roughly the size of a large postage stamp and weighing about two grams, kept ...

In A Nutshell Inhaling common disinfectant chemicals was roughly 100 times more lethal to mice than swallowing them. Male ...

The choice of rodent strain for neuroscientific research is often considered a secondary factor when selecting rat or mouse models for functional studies of ...

By scanning the brains of mice throughout their lifespans, scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute and the University of Texas at Dallas have discovered that the human brain is not unique in how ...

The human brain operates as a network of interconnected modules specialized for tasks that become less specialized as people age—a breakdown associated with memory loss and othe ...