We’re a long way from reviving a frozen human, but new research yields insight.

Mice make use of rapid nerve cell interactions in the brain's smell center to distinguish one odor from another, a new study shows. Both mice and humans can rapidly identify odors, researchers say, in ...

A team of researchers froze mouse brain tissue for a week. After warming it up again, they found that the brain tissue ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A ‘cryosleep pod’ in the 1979 science-fiction film Alien. (20TH CENTURY FOX via AJ Pics/Alamy) A familiar trope in science fiction ...

Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Sanford Burnham Prebys explore genetic factors in separate papers ...

The Salk Institute in La Jolla has dropped a massive, cell-by-cell atlas of the aging mouse brain that scientists say could ...

Humans and many other animals can innately recognize familiar objects in their surroundings, irrespective of the angle they are observed from, changes in lighting or other shifts in the surrounding ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive memory loss, cognitive decline, and behavioral changes. The deficits linked to AD are known to result from the ...