Andrea Lius

All Stories by Andrea Lius

  1. Neuroscience

    Clumps of mouse brain cells can learn to play a virtual game

    Sure, playing video game is fun. But the ability of tiny brain organoids to pick up a skill could provide insight into how healthy brains work.

  2. Animals

    Some snakes lack the ‘hunger hormone.’ Experts are hungry to know why

    The complex biology of ghrelin, the hunger hormone, has researchers wondering how its absence helps snakes last a long time with no food, if at all.