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Fat cells behave differently in obese individuals, causing inflammation and insulin resitance.
Fungi in 100 million year-old seafloor sediments could possess novel antibiotics.
The healing powers of maggots may lie in their secreted proteins, which restrain the human immune response.
Archaea packages DNA around histones in a similar way to eukaryotes, suggesting that fitting a large genome into a small space was not the original role of chromatin.
Adipose tissue plays an immune role in individuals of normal wieght.
Two species of songbirds pack their nests with scavenged cigarette butts that repel irksome parasites.
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