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How Ants Make Collective Decisions
Sukanya Charuchandra | Aug 1, 2018 | 2 min read
Transport of food sways between two modes.
Infographic: Embryonic Zippering
Ashley Yeager | Jul 31, 2018 | 1 min read
How actin seals embryos early in development
Productivity Paradox
Jim Daley | Jun 1, 2018 | 2 min read
During the last ice age, there wasn’t much plant matter to eat on northern steppes, but herbivorous woolly mammoths were abundant. How did they survive?
Incomplete Immunity
Jim Daley | Jun 1, 2018 | 2 min read
By combining experimental data with computer models, researchers were able to predict a pathogen’s evolution toward more virulence.
Condensin Folds DNA Through Loop Extrusion
Diana Kwon | Jun 1, 2018 | 3 min read
By observing the activity of a protein complex in real time, researchers have uncovered new evidence for a long-standing theory.
Infographic: Skotomorphogenesis Versus Photomorphogenesis
Kerry Grens | Jan 31, 2018 | 1 min read
Pectin fragments may signal plant cells to maintain a type of growth suited to darkness.
Book Excerpt from Jane on the Brain
Wendy Jones | Nov 30, 2017 | 5 min read
In chapter 3, “The Sense of Sensibility,” author Wendy Jones uses scenes from one of Jane Austen’s most celebrated novels to illustrate the functioning of the body’s stress response system.
American Chemical Society Wins Lawsuit Against Sci-Hub
Diana Kwon | Nov 7, 2017 | 4 min read
A US judge issues a broad injunction that allows the society to demand that technology companies actively associated with the site block access to it.
Opinion: Share Your Data
Cameron Craddock, Arno Klein, and Michael P. Milham | Oct 24, 2017 | 4 min read
Our analysis of a collection of open-access datasets quantifies their benefit to the scientific community.
German Scientists Resign from Elsevier Journals’ Editorial Boards
Diana Kwon | Oct 18, 2017 | 3 min read
These researchers join around 200 research institutions that have cut ties with the publishing giant to support the ongoing push for open access and favorable pricing.
Papers Based on Misidentified Cell Lines Top 32,000
Kerry Grens | Oct 16, 2017 | 1 min read
An analysis of contaminated literature finds that tens of thousands of papers used cell lines of questionable origins—and these were in turn cited by hundreds of thousands of other papers.
Judge Recommends Ruling to Block Internet Access to Sci-Hub
Diana Kwon | Oct 3, 2017 | 3 min read
The American Chemical Society seeks a broad order that includes millions of dollars in damages and demands action from Internet service providers and search engines. 
Genes’ Composition Guides More-Optimal Diets
Ruth Williams | Jun 1, 2017 | 2 min read
Fruit flies and mice grow better and eat less when the amino acid balance of their food reflects that coded by their exomes.
Bone Marrow Isn’t the Only Source of Platelets
Ashley P. Taylor | Jun 1, 2017 | 2 min read
Scientists have estimated that about half of murine platelet production occurs in the lungs.
Long-Term Memory Storage Begins Immediately
Kerry Grens | Jun 1, 2017 | 2 min read
In mice, cells in the prefrontal cortex—where memories are maintained long-term—start to encode a fearful experience right from the start.
Infographic: Cook Up an Exome-Based Diet
Ruth Williams | May 31, 2017 | 1 min read
See how scientists designed food with amino acid compositions based on protein-coding regions in the genomes of mice and fruit flies.
Macrophages Physically Relay Signals Between Cell Types
Catherine Offord | May 1, 2017 | 3 min read
Time-lapse imaging shows the immune cells transferring chemical signals during pigment pattern formation in developing zebrafish.
Rare T Cells Fight Cancer
Jef Akst | May 1, 2017 | 2 min read
A new approach to immunotherapy finds that the immune-cell clonotypes that come to the rescue start out at very low frequencies.
Noncoding RNA Helps Cells Recover from DNA Damage
Diana Kwon | May 1, 2017 | 2 min read
Scientists discover transcripts from the same gene that can express both proteins and noncoding RNA.
 
Infographic: How the Zebrafish Got Its Stripes
Catherine Offord | Apr 30, 2017 | 1 min read
Immune cells called macrophages shuttle cellular messages in the skin.
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