Researchers have uncovered how non-neuronal cells in the brain – glial cells – play an active role in regulating sleep and ...

K nowing the location of a gene within intact tissue or a single cell allows scientists to unlock unknown cellular functions.

Published in the journal EMBO Reports, the study reveals that the two genes, TrxT and dhd, which are not normally coexpressed ...

Homeostasis is the ability of living organisms to maintain stable internal conditions, such as temperature, hydration and ...

All animals including humans are subject to daily rhythms in their activity and sleep, hunger, metabolism, and reproduction. The system that regulates these biological rhythms is known as the ...

Using brain mapping, genetic engineering and machine learning, scientists reveal how parasitic bacteria take over fruit fly ...

It not only protects neurons (brain cells), from being destroyed, but also increases the efficiency by which other cells, called phagocytes, clean up damaged neurons. The researchers used Drosophila ...

2003 ). For example, when expressed in the Drosophila brain, Tau protein—which forms neurofibrillary tangle pathology in AD—causes adult onset, progressive neurodegeneration, truncated lifespan and ...

This useful study explores the role of RAP2A in asymmetric cell division (ACD) regulation in glioblastoma stem cells (GSCs), drawing parallels to Drosophila ACD mechanisms and proposing that an ...

To rest our bodies, and our brains? To sort through a day’s worth of memories? To cleanse our brain of waste products that collect as neurons and supporting cells busily do their thing?