Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The University of South Carolina in Columbia. (Tracy Glantz/tglantz@thestate.com) A series of experiments at USC involving rats, ...

Scientists have completed a brain cell transplant, combining lab-grown clumps of human brain cells with those of newborn rats. The experiment is disturbing, but there's a good reason behind the move.

Researchers at Tohoku University and Future University Hakodate have trained cultured rat cortical neurons to perform ...

Seven years ago, researchers at Stanford University started an ambitious experiment: They began growing miniature, simplified versions of the human brain from stem cells inside a lab, then later ...

You've heard the concept of the "rat race," but how about a literal rat, racing through the hallways of Doom? One researcher named Viktor Toth ran an experiment over nearly six months, seeing if he ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The University of South Carolina said an experiment involving cocaine-addicted rats being electrically shocked has been stopped for now. In November, the university ...

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