As biomedical research prioritizes human models and translational promise, classic model organisms are increasingly dismissed. Here we argue that they have a lasting value, both in enabling discovery and in cultivating scientific thinking, by training researchers in systems reasoning, integrative thinking and independent inquiry.

During primary neurulation in amniote embryos, the neural plate gives rise to the neural tube in a process requiring the coordination of forces at different scales throughout a geometrically complex t...

The Uruguayan Society for Neuroscience (SNU) reaches its 30th anniversary in 2024, but neuroscience research in Uruguay has a much longer history, formally starting around a century ago with Clemente ...