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Shrews can shrink their brains by 30%. Here's how they grow it back.
In preparation for winter, the common shrew (Sorex araneus) shrinks its brain by 30 percent to conserve precious energy. Then ...
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This tiny mammal regrows its brain each winter and may unlock Alzheimer’s cures
The common shrew looks unremarkable, a few grams of fur and teeth scurrying under leaf litter. Yet this tiny mammal performs one of the strangest tricks in biology, shrinking its own brain and skull ...
They found that the shrews’ brain cells lose water but crucially do not die, meaning that the animals retain their brain ...
It's not unusual for animals like bears to build their body mass in the lead-up to winter, stockpiling fat while dialing down their metabolism to endure the lean times ahead. With a life-expectancy of ...
Last autumn, I was canoeing in a quiet saltwater cove on the Maine coast when I realized I had a tiny stowaway onboard. A masked shrew (Sorex cinereus, also called ...
Common shrews are one of only a handful of mammals known to flexibly shrink and regrow their brains. This rare seasonal cycle, known as Dehnel’s phenomenon, has puzzled scientists for decades. How can ...
Milestones in common shrew chromosomal research / Jan Zima and Jeremy B. Searle -- Introducing the common shrew / Nikolay A. Shchipanov, Jan Zima and Sara Churchfield -- Morphology and genetics of the ...
3D brain of the common shrew, reconstructed from in vivo MRI scans. Different colors show different brain regions: neocortex (blue), olfactory bulb (light blue), enthorinal/piriform cortices (grey), ...
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