Key Laboratory of Agri-Products Quality and Biosafety (Ministry of Education), Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Crop Integrated Pest Management, Anhui Province Engineering Laboratory for Green ...

A neuroanatomical minimal network model was revisited to elucidate the mechanism of salt concentration memory-dependent chemotaxis observed in Caenorhabditis elegans. C. elegans memorizes the salt ...

A combination of methods, including a new method for tagging genes, demonstrates that the chemosensory co-receptors of Drosophila melanogaster (Orco, IR8a, IR25a, IR76b) are expressed widely and ...

New research provides direct evidence that the gut microbiome communicates with the brain through the vagus nerve.

Vistagen (Nasdaq: VTGN), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering neuroscience with nose-to-brain neurocircuitry to develop and commercialize a new class of intranasal product candidates ...

A recent study in an animal model provides direct evidence for the role of the vagus nerve in gut microbiome-brain ...

New research in eGastroenterology identifies the unfolded protein response (UPR) as a crucial mechanism in maintaining ...

Snails depend on their senses of smell and touch and on chemosensory organs to navigate their world. ©Vitalii Hulai/Shutterstock.com Surprisingly enough, the next deadliest animal on our ranking is ...

Serial killers hold a strange fascination for many people. The reason for this is difficult to ascertain, but why anyone would become a serial killer in the first place is even more difficult to ...

Apoptosis occurs in a wide range of human diseases. In animal models of virus-induced disease, apoptosis correlates with viral titre and can be found in areas targeted by viral infection, which ...