Mice with a disabled RGS14 gene are able to remember objects and learn to navigate mazes better than normal mice.
The Tasmanian Devil is at risk of extinction in the wild due to a transmissible cancer passed on when one animal bites another.
Diabetes can cause the death of nerves in the body's extremities, a condition known as diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN).
As a normal mammalian body grows, hundreds of motor neurons grow from the spinal cord to the muscles they will control.
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