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Cassava engineered to produce healthier tapioca starch
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Kleefstra syndrome in mice reversed after birth
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Decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic
Confronting a string of epidemics including COVID-19
Next stop: clinical hair regeneration
Godzilla-sized zooplankton for better aquafarming
Electric rays to help us map the ocean floor
Bacterial drug resistance studied by robotic E. coli evolution
New artificial skin helps avoid animal testing
Social novelty in the brain: haven’t I seen you someplace before?
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Something smells fishy: categorizing odors in the brain
Photosynthetic bacteria spin spider silk for the masses
Blood cell mutations linked to leukemia are inevitable
Organic nitrogen in soil helps crop growth
Consciousness, brain connections, and the claustrum
A new imaging biomarker for the aging brain
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Staining that lights up whole organs and bodies
Artificial gravity protects the immune system of mice in space
Ultraprecise clocks and the Tokyo Skytree verify Einstein’s theory of relativity
Low-protein diet changes sperm and health of future offspring
Physiological origami and proper body development in flies
Efficient and durable ultra-thin solar cells
Tape and vermilion: ingredients for mapping artifact origins
Root growth improved in soil contaminated with cesium
Japanese people are a mixture of three separate ancestral groups
Space Café Tokyo explains sus sci-fi media
Recipe for hydrogen: sprinkle manganese oxide with iridium atoms, add water
Stable green hydrogen production in a PEM electrolyzer
Brainless memory makes the spinal cord smarter than previously thought
Eco-friendly ammonia production for fertilizers and alternative fuel
Cubes of brain tissue allow drug discovery without animals
Gut bacteria could help overcome milk allergy
Aug
20

Predictive grid cells help self navigation in the brain
Scientists have discovered grid cells in the brain that map an animal’s (or human’s) future position in space.
Aug
7

Dopamine reduces beta-amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s disease
Increasing dopamine in the brains of AD model mice led to increased neprilysin, which broke down amyloid-beta plaques and improved memory.
Jul
8

RIKEN discovers new T cells related to immune disorders
Immune-related diseases like multiple sclerosis associated with genetic variation in newly discovered, rare T cells.
Jul
2

Will the “love hormone” ever be used to treat a rare genetic disease?
One of the pitfalls of researching an extremely rare disease: getting enough data to support clinical trials could be impossible.
Jun
27

Purple biomass makes a good crop fertilizer
Biomass made from purple marine bacteria provides more than enough nitrogen to plants without harming the environment
Jun
20

Atlas of the aging lipidome highlights kidneys and gut bacteria
The atlas revealed sex differences in the aging kidney lipidome and lipid byproducts of gut bacteria that accumulate throughout the body.