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From left: Karina Sanchez, Janelle Ayres, Robert Gallant, Christian Metallo, and Emeline Joulia.

How antidepressants can protect against infections and sepsis

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

rapper meditating

How the Brain Calms Anxiety Through Slower Breathing

Categories Brain & Behavior

Mouse neuronal cells with mitochondria (red) and nuclei (blue).

Cannabinoid Shows Promise in Protecting the Brain Against Aging and Neurodegeneration

Categories Brain & Behavior

PAC1R-expressing dorsal raphe neurons in the mouse brain (red) serve as the projection targets for PACAP parabrachial neurons to mediate panic-like behavioral and physical symptoms.

Scientists find brain pathway mediating panic disorder symptoms

Categories Brain & Behavior

Human hand marked with GlowTrack fluorescent tags.

Unleashing the power of AI to track animal behavior

Categories Life & Non-humans, Technology

New experiences are absorbed into neural representations over time, symbolized here by a hyperboloid hourglass.

The brain’s ability to perceive space expands like the universe

Categories Brain & Behavior, Physics & Mathematics, Space

Time-restricted eating reshapes gene expression throughout the body. In this illustration, the Ferris wheel displays the interconnected organ systems working smoothly during time-restricted eating, which is represented by the clock in the middle.

Time-restricted eating reshapes gene expression throughout the body

Categories Health

Salk researchers discovered the compound FexD can treat intestinal inflammation in mice. Mice with symptoms similar to inflammatory bowel disease had changes to the cells lining their intestines (left) that were reversed with treatment (right).

Compound reverses gut inflammation in mice

Categories Health

From left: Margarita Behrens and Joseph Ecker

$126 million effort to map the aging human brain

Categories Brain & Behavior

Salk scientists discovered a gene and group of cells that prevent escalated aggression in the brains of fruit flies.

Aggression de-escalation gene identified in fruit flies

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans

Arabidopsis thaliana cells (top) and seedlings (bottom) in different light and temperature conditions. The seedlings pictured on the far right show accelerated growth in response to shade and warm temperatures.

How light and temperature work together to affect plant growth

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment

Left: Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome cell with signs of premature aging. This cell shows less histone protein (green), which normally helps maintain the cell’s DNA integrity and function. Right: The cell shows less signs of aging when LINE-1 RNA is reduced, and there is more histone protein present.

New target identified for treatment of premature aging disease

Categories Health

The protein that keeps the pancreas from digesting itself

Categories Health

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