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Mubarak Hussain Syed, an assistant professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico, along with a team of UNM students ...

Newly published research in the journal Glia has identified crucial links between dietary choices and the progression of ...

Researchers, supported by the NIH's BRAIN Initiative, have created a comprehensive map of the fruit fly brain, identifying ...

"Essentially this leads to low oxygen levels in the blood, and the cells of the body cannot function without adequate ... Cauchi stressed the importance of the Motor Neuron Disease Laboratory at the ...

With 140,000 neurons, 50 million synapses and over 100,000 cell label annotations, the fruit fly brain has been mapped and ...

Newly published research in the journal Glia has identified crucial links between dietary choices and the progression of ...