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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
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Learning and unlearning to fear: The two faces of noradrenaline
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Superfly flight simulator helps unravel navigation in the brain
Skipping fatty acids could be recipe for schizophrenia
A gut-wrenching defense against parasitic worms
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From egg to embryo
This nickel catalyst bats from both sides of the plate
New info about how chromosomes form
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Protons are lighter than previously thought
Untangling depression in Huntington’s disease
Imaging whole-body cancer metastasis at the single-cell level
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Carbon nanotubes, what are they good for?
Finding real rewards in a virtual world
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The geometry of consciousness is a multi-dimensional math trip
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Locating social memories in the brain
Big news in iPS cell transplants
In Japan, women in science seek allies, resources in push for gender equality
Measuring altitude — with clocks?
The sound of molecules: NMR-inspired music
Eve Marder: freeing knowledge, crashing neurons
None of us would get on a plane that had its parts changed in mid-air, says Eve Marder, who has spent her career probing a very specific cluster of crustacean nerve cells. Yet we are all walking around undergoing a constant turnover of cellular parts, and so are the lobsters and crabs Marder studies.
RIKEN Research Summer issue
Green hydrogen production for fuel cells and fertilizers
Social contact-seeking behavior and loneliness in the brain
New treatment assembles cancer drug inside the body
New lab-grown retinal sheets almost ready for clinical trials
The free-energy principle explains neural network behavior
How does gravity affect antimatter?
Super-thin wearable electronics just got more flexible
Cassava engineered to produce healthier tapioca starch
Diazoxide pills for Alzheimer’s disease?
Aug
22

Marsupial heart regeneration ability given to mice
Regeneration of mouse hearts ? ?? after birth achieved by figuring out how it’s possible in opossums. Continue!
Aug
19

How an herbal medicine protects against inflamed bowels
A Japanese herbal medicine promotes good bacteria and innate immune cells in the gut, which protects against intestinal inflammation. Continue!
Jul
7

Robotic AI helps efficient growth of replacement organs
Humans team-up with a robotic AI to speed up experiments to find the best way to regrow damaged eye tissue from stem cells. Continue!
Jun
20

Extra “eye” movements are the key to better self-driving cars
If self-driving cars make saccades like people, they might make fewer mistakes identifying important features of the road. Continue!
May
26

Palaeospondylus: mystery of vertebrate evolution solved
Micro-CT scans using synchrotron radiation X-rays reveal Palaeospondylus morphology, finally allowing its placement on the evolutionary tree. Continue!
Apr
28

Xist knockout rescues miscarriages in mice
Xist knockout rescues miscarriages in mice whose egg cells lack H3K27me3 epigenetic instructions. Continue!