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Novel tool gives researchers a better view of brain wiring
FlatMux captures electrical activity optically from nearly 200 genetically defined neurons across brain circuits, revealing how signals flow, cells connect, and computations emerge in a living mouse brain.
Flies use directional memory to track a scent
A new study reveals how fruit flies store a memory of how to relocate a scent, even after it disappears.
The body has an early warning system that helps the brain prepare for a viral attack
A newly discovered signaling network transmits advanced intelligence from distal regions of the body to the blood-brain barrier, giving the brain time to ready itself.
This unusual epigenetic modifier promotes certain cancers but suppresses others
A new study on the modifier MLL4 could illuminate how cancer genes get switched on in leukemias.
Researchers uncover clues to how parenting behavior evolved in ants
A new study suggests that caregiving behaviors are regulated by neural mechanisms that change over the course of an ant’s lifetime, a finding that offers insights into the origins of a crucial social behavior and how healthy brains age.
Powering an automated pipeline for drug discovery
Sean Brady uses computational biology and synthetic chemistry to speed up the search for new drug candidates hidden in the natural world.
Mapping a hidden communication network between organs
A new protein-tracing platform reveals how fat and liver cells communicate during fasting, inflammation, and obesity, and links many of those signals to human disease.
Breaking down the science: How one virus teaches your body to fight another
Research Associate Alexander Lercher is uncovering immune pathways that let our bodies adapt to viral threats over time.
Evidence builds for the role malfunctioning protein removal systems play in neurodegenerative diseases
New research reveals genetic mutations contributing to the buildup of protein clumps and disruption of synaptic function.
Why studying how the immune system evolves could teach us much about evolution itself
Gabriel D. Victora's team has turned germinal centers into a living laboratory for one of biology's oldest questions: how much of evolution is shaped by chance?
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