Plastic and thus modifiable neurons lose their function at old age, new research in fruit flies reveals.

Lifelong plasticity is a core principle of neuroscience, yet it operates within real limits shaped by effort, stress and ...

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

Researchers are testing a new approach to repair early memory loss by protecting brain connections affected in Alzheimer’s ...

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 ...