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Life's Ratchet, The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix, The Fractalist and Hallucinations
Researchers learn to predict visual imagery in dreams based on functional MRI scans of brain activity during sleep.
A microfluidic device scans individual C. elegans for abnormal traits and sorts wild-type animals from mutants.
Unlike epithelial cells, neurons respond to herpes infection through autophagy, rather than by releasing inflammatory factors.
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Fat cells behave differently in obese individuals, causing inflammation and insulin resitance.
The healing powers of maggots may lie in their secreted proteins, which restrain the human immune response.
Insulin, long recognized as a primary regulator of blood glucose, is now also understood to play key roles in neuroplasticity, neuromodulation, and neurotrophism.