The medical consequences of traumatic brain injuries are well-studied and affect millions of Americans every year. But one of ...

Scientists transplanted human brain organoids into rats to repair injuries to their visual processing systems. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has inserted human neurons into the brains of rats with damaged visual cortices, New Scientist reports, a Frankensteinian experiment that had ...

In recent experiments, rat brain cells filled in for lost neurons in mouse brains, raising new possibilities for growing donor tissues across species. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

has received a multimillion-dollar grant to determine the genetic code of the rat, an important next step in the effort to unravel the basis of human disease. Because the laboratory rat is widely used ...