If you're cutting out sweets and chocolate for Lent, here's what you can expect over the next 40 days (and nights).

Most obese patients grow resistant to satiety signals from the hormone leptin. A new study shows that leptin sensitivity can be restored in mice, leading to weight loss.

2025年2月25日，美国范德比尔特大学Cody A. Siciliano团队在Nature communications发表“Synchrony between midbrain gene transcription and dopamine ...

在这项研究中，研究人员让雄性恒河猴连续饮酒超过20个月，期间穿插了三个为期30天的强制戒酒期。研究的重点是观察这些猴子在最后一段戒酒结束后，大脑中的多巴胺转运蛋白功能、κ阿片受体敏感性和强啡肽释放的变化。

Researchers at the Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of ...

We recruited 13 healthy volunteers who were in the early stages of romantic heterosexual relationships; all had normal or corrected-to-normal visual acuity, were right-handed according to the ...

Recent research revealed that 60% of Americans’ daily caloric intake comes from ultra-processed foods. UPFs often contain ...

Don Ross shares how the ability to anticipate and manage risk co-evolved with our “expensive” brains – and the implications ...

The portable incubator allows worry-free mobility between labs while safeguarding the integrity of sensitive biological ...

在这项研究中，研究人员运用了多种关键技术方法。首先是细胞培养技术，他们从健康供体获取成纤维细胞，通过重编程得到人诱导多能干细胞（human induced pluripotent stem cells，hiPSC），并将其分化为 hMO；同时从健康供体的外周血单核细胞（peripheral blood mononuclear cells，PBMCs）中分离出 T ...

The study presents a useful computational analysis of how the ratio between excitatory and inhibitory neural numbers affects coding capacity. The authors show that increasing the proportion of ...