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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 ...
They found that the shrews’ brain cells lose water but crucially do not die, meaning that the animals retain their brain ...
These are for editorial purposes relating to this press release and the study “Baldoni et al (2025) Programmed seasonal brain shrinkage in the common shrew via water loss without cell death. Current ...
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 ...
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 the cinereus or common shrew) was ...
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