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Mouse drinking syrup from syringe.

Fructose silences hunger-driving neurons less than glucose does

Two simple sugars show the complexities of gut-brain communication.

By Sarah Thau
30 June 2026 | 3 min read

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In memoriam: Susumu Tonegawa, ‘intellectual giant’

He won the Nobel Prize for his work on immunology and then went on to define the field of learning and memory.

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Purkinje cells evolved to have increasingly complex architecture

An increasing proportion of the cerebellar neurons acquired multiple primary dendrites in humans and other apes, according to a comparison of 11 primate species.

By Siddhant Pusdekar
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