While probing the escape reflex in the fruit fly Drosophila, researchers at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (JGU) and the ...

A study reveals how seasonal brain shrinking helps some mammals survive winter, offering new insights into brain plasticity ...

Cancer cells expand through mutations – but not just through mutations. They also change their behavior in the absence of underlying genetic alterations. Such plasticity helps the cells both adapt to ...

Research has identified a mechanism through which insulin-like growth factors facilitate brain plasticity. The insulin super-family of hormones, including insulin, insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1), ...

In a plenary presentation at the AACR Annual Meeting, Dr. Dana Pe’er highlighted three recent research collaborations that have shed new light on the ability of cancer cells to adapt and spread. About ...

Patients with epilepsy must take medicine to manage seizures. Even then, only 65% are able to control their symptoms, rendering invasive surgery the only cure. Now, a research group has investigated a ...

Can AI learn without forgetting? Explore five levels of continual learning and the stability-plasticity tradeoff to plan better AI roadmaps.