Study reveals significant differences in RNA editing between postmortem and living human brains
Researchers at Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine have shed valuable light on the nuanced functions and complex regulatory pathways of RNA editing, a crucial mechanism underlying brain development and…
Odors are encoded in rings in the brains of migrating locusts
The migratory grasshopper Locusta migratoria is an economically important crop pest said to have come to Egypt in the Old Testament as the eighth of the ten biblical plagues, “to…
Take it from the rats: A junk food diet can cause long-term damage to adolescent brains
A new USC-led study of rats feasting on a high-fat, high-sugar diet raises the possibility that a junk-food-filled diet in teenagers could disrupt their brains' memory abilities for long periods…
Gull species with larger brains thrive in urban spaces
Despite their reputation for being the garbage pandas of the bird world, seagulls are something of a master of evolution. They can survive and thrive alongside humans, have a remarkable…
