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Examples of parasites that manipulate the behavior of their hosts are not hard to come by, but scientists have only recently begun to understand how they induce such dramatic changes.
The body’s own mechanism for dispersing the inflammatory reaction might lead to new treatments for chronic pain.
US salaries are starting to recover after last year’s survey recorded the first-ever drop.
Read about beginnings of neuroscience through the eyes of Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel, and how researchers today envision the future of the field.
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