Researchers discover the SELK neuron, a single-cell decision-maker in fruit flies that weighs sweet vs. bitter signals to determine whether to eat or flee.
For the fruit fly, a sense of taste is critical to whether it thrives or dies. The little winged creature has taste organs in ...
A set of recent research papers proposes that freezing or selectively tuning a small fraction of neurons inside large ...
Scientists created an artificial neuron that operates at the same voltage as living cells and is able to communicate with the ...
Recent technological advances facilitate the reconstruction of complete brain connectomes in small organisms and partial ...
Scientists have found that your brain separates memories into “what” and “where/when” using two different groups of neurons.
The human brain holds a staggering number of connections, yet scientists have long struggled to explain how it stores so much ...