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Adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP) is a progressive neurological disease with an ...

UC San Diego scientists have created a gene therapy that goes beyond masking Alzheimer’s symptoms—it may actually restore ...

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They replaced this large brain region with rat cells, and 60% of the cells in the mature mice ended up being of rat origin. Despite their hybridized brains, the mice acted like typical lab mice ...

The mice's brain activity also looked resilient. "The whole thing seemed like such a wild idea that I almost couldn't believe it worked," Xia said.

There were two major surprises. First, the mice learned in 20 to 40 tries, "extraordinarily fast," according to Kuchibhotla. And second, this learning activity happened in the sensory cortex ...

Curious about a brain region that regulates body temperature in rodents, Dr. Chen and her colleagues constructed tiny ultrasound mouse caps. The devices trained six bursts, each consisting of 10 ...