Viruses that attack bacteria may be an important component of our gut microbiota.
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Synthetic biologists are looking to analog, not digital, circuits to create cell-based calculators that can add, divide, and even perform algorithms.
Experimental cancer therapeutics delivered to tumors via nanoparticles could provide a safer and more effective therapy than conventional chemotherapy.
A new class of immune cell could protect against type 1 diabetes by suppressing other immune cells.
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Chilly weather could impede the immune reactions that most effectively contain viruses like the common cold.
A psychiatrist argues that the newly revised manual of mental disorders is part of a dangerous trend toward the medicalization of normal behavior.
Top brass at the US science agency aired monetary grievances before a Senate committee last week.
A declaration asks the scientific community to put less weight on the metric, widely used to evaluate journals’ prestige.
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Discoveries of microbial communities that transfer electrons between cells and across relatively long distances are launching a new field of microbiology.
The study of connective tissue is shedding light on pain and providing new explanations for alternative medicine.
Researchers are using modern experimental tools to probe the mysterious molecular pathways that lead to premature labor and birth.
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Desulfobulbaceae bacteria were recently discovered to form centimeter-long cables, containing thousands of cells that share an outer membrane.
USC researcher Mohamed El-Naggar demonstrates how some bacteria grow electrical wires that allow them to link up in big biological circuits.
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