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Quick, call Spiderman: scientists discover how spider silk is formed
Mutation protects against Alzheimer’s disease in mice
Plant peptide spells relief from salty stress
Putting E. coli to work for us
Why being sick can create anxiety
Plant hormone combats dehydration
Heat shock system helps dried up bug come back to life
In living color: imaging the brain with synthetic bioluminescence
Deep-brain exploration with nanomaterials
Running away from carbon dioxide: the terminal connection
Rainbow engineering to make the brain glow
Geostationary satellite enables better precipitation and flood predictions
Clean and green: a moss that removes lead (Pb) from water
The brain’s GPS has a buddy system
Leaky plants bad for drought resistance
Helping the body clock keep its cool
The stars align
What’s that smell? The advantage of sniffing
Quantum dots light up cancer with a little help
Most precise measurement ever of proton magnetic moment
Proton and antiproton still seem identical
Microcolumns: elementary neuronal units that carpet the (mouse) brain
Jupiter’s volcano-powered auroral lights
Hepatoma (liver cancer) blocked by a sugar look-a-like
Random movements help color-detecting cells form the proper pattern
Visualizing chick-brain morphogenesis
Skin-like wearable electronics
Solar cells you can put in the wash
Learning and unlearning to fear: The two faces of noradrenaline
ּּּBigger oocytes = more mistakes
Superfly flight simulator helps unravel navigation in the brain
Skipping fatty acids could be recipe for schizophrenia
A gut-wrenching defense against parasitic worms
Memory retrieval needs a neuronal connecting flight
From egg to embryo
This nickel catalyst bats from both sides of the plate
New info about how chromosomes form
Tracking how stars grow up in a virtual playground
Protons are lighter than previously thought
Cassava engineered to produce healthier tapioca starch
Diazoxide pills for Alzheimer’s disease?
Zebrafish imagine a danger-free future to avoid threats in virtual reality
Kleefstra syndrome in mice reversed after birth
A faster and more sensitive antibody test for COVID-19
Opossums are the first genome edited marsupials
Methylation mutation directly linked to autism
Melatonin in mice, circadian rhythms, and daily torpor
Why (mouse) mothers take risks to protect their infants
Feb
25

Nanocarrier spray: better crops without genetic modification
Gene expression, but not genomes, altered in plants and crops with a spray containing bioactive molecules tethered to nanocarrier peptides Continue!
Feb
16

Introducing Nikola, the emotional android boy
A new android named Nikola will help researchers study facial expressions, emotions, and social interactions. Continue!
Feb
15

Green hydrogen production for fuel cells and fertilizers
A new method of water electrolysis avoids rare metals, making hydrogen production green and sustainable. Continue!
Feb
9

Social contact-seeking behavior and loneliness in the brain
Levels of the peptide amylin in the brain are related to loneliness; activating amylin neurons in the MPOA drives isolated mice to seek social contact. Continue!
Feb
4

New treatment assembles cancer drug inside the body
Cancer drugs assembled inside the body on cancer cells should reduce harmful side effects to other tissue. Continue!
Jan
27

New lab-grown retinal sheets almost ready for clinical trials
A new retinal transplant technique works by preventing bipolar cells from maturing in lab-grown retinal sheets. Continue!