Articles by

Laura Sanders

Hair pulling prompts one of the fastest known pain signals

CHICAGO — Big news for fighting sisters: Scientists have found the sensors that signal the painful zing...

Semaglutide saps mice’s motivation to run

CHICAGO — Mice love to run. But not when they’re taking semaglutide, the diabetes and weight-loss drug...

Scientists have traced all 54.5 million connections in a fruit fly’s brain

In the brain of a singular fruit fly, nerve cells weave themselves together, enabling flight, mating, eating,...

A study in mice hints at a new way to treat spinal cord injuries

After a devastating spinal cord injury, mice’s nerve cells balloon up in size. Some of these neurons...