Scientists discover compounds that restore antibiotic efficacy against drug-resistant superbugs.
Disease risk can be transmitted epigenetically via egg and sperm cells, a mouse study shows.
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The transcriptional regulator dampens the immune system’s ability to elicit an antitumor response, a study shows.
Scientists discover compounds that restore antibiotic efficacy against drug-resistant superbugs.
Parasitic mites that transmit a honey bee-infecting virus may benefit from spreading the pathogen, a study shows.
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Corrections give belated credit for immunotherapy; mosquitoes have been bugging us long before Zika; the bright side of irreproducibility
A newly described horse-size relative of Tyrannosaurus rex may help settle the question of how massive carnivorous dinosaurs took shape throughout the eons.
Researchers identify a modified form of a migration-regulating protein in cancer cells that remodels the tumor microenvironment to promote metastasis.
Profile of a CRISPR pioneer; SciHub, open access, and for-profit publishing; improving ecological models
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March 2016
The immediate consequences of losing out on sleep may be harbingers of long-term repercussions.
Surprisingly small sections of brain, and even neuronal and glial networks in a dish, display many electrical indicators of sleep.
Once believed to be unique to birds and mammals, sleep is found across the metazoan kingdom. Some animals, it seems, can’t live without it, though no one knows exactly why.
Assessing body position in addition to activity may improve monitoring of sleep-wake periods.
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Sleep-like patterns of neural activity are apparent not just at the level of the whole brain, but also in isolated neural circuits.
The far-reaching effects of sleep loss
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