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Spruce and pine and have relied on similar genetic toolkits for climate adaptation despite millions of years of evolution.

A tool that uses machine learning algorithms to comb and categorize the scientific literature is making waves in neuroscience.

Results from experiments in mice revise a long-held hypothesis that certain protein scaffolds are needed for synaptic activity.

Researchers describe the first known bacterial adhesion molecule that binds to frozen water. 

The results suggest that breathing is orchestrated by three—rather than two—excitatory circuits in the medulla.

This third excitatory network helps to regulate postinspiration.

Some ciliates use the same trio of nucleotides to code for an amino acid and to stop translation.

NSAIDs reduce this "parainflammation," hinting at how they help lower cancer risk.

Photon emissions in the brain are red-shifted in more-intelligent species, though scientists dispute what that means.

Traditional stop codons have a double meaning in the protozoans' mRNA, sometimes calling for an amino acid during translation.

Newly developed techniques from four different groups rely on the same basic steps to track translation in live cells.

The second visual field may aid in navigation.

Neurons in the lamprey spinal cord can sense pH and counteract changes from the body’s optimal range.

Drosophila antennae let the insects seek out moisture levels they like best.

In mice, immune cells from the body cavity surrounding organs arrive at the site of damage to chew up the nuclei of dead cells.

Researchers discover a completely novel mechanism of cell signaling involving soluble chemokines and their transmembrane equivalents.

A recent exchange of papers is divided over the evidence for compensatory gene expression among wild strains of aneuploid yeast.

A photosensitive protein behind the retinas of cockroaches plays a role in light-dependent, directional magnetosensitivity.

An alternative route to sparking cell signals involves hook-ups between transmembrane and soluble ligands.

After surgery to remove a tumor, neutrophils recruited to the site spit out sticky webs of DNA that aid cancer recurrence.