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In mice, a transcriptional regulator, β-catenin, activates a microRNA-processing pathway in the nucleus accumbens to promote resilience to social stress.

Mouse offspring conceived by in vitro fertilization are metabolically different from naturally conceived mice.

An enzyme that cleaves tau protein in acidic cellular conditions may trigger early events in Alzheimer’s disease.

Forces from bidirectional growth plates mechanically realign broken bones in infant mice.

Staff of the blog Retraction Watch will create a database of papers retracted from the scientific literature.

A known membrane-remodeling complex earns a newly identified role as a quality-assurance director during the assembly of nuclear pores.

Researchers discover a new subunit of a bacterial RNA polymerase—as well as hints of its potential role in defending against viruses.

A multitasking plasma membrane protein coordinates cell division and energy metabolism in healthy—and perhaps also cancerous—Drosophila cells.

Circadian neurons in fruit flies form synapses with different, noncircadian brain regions depending on the time of day.

Glial cells consume mitochondria released by neurons in the optic nerve.

Individual neurons in the dorsomedial striatum integrate responses to sight and touch.

Retinal glial cells acting as optical fibers shuttle longer wavelengths of light to individual cones.

In mice, adult cone cell outer segments and their visual functions deteriorate if two microRNAs are not present.

Sounds trigger a response in the visual cortex that predicts how accurately a person can identify a visual target.

Indexing of retractions on PubMed is not immediate; some are delayed for years.

The world’s first systematic citation index celebrates a golden milestone this year.

With scientific budgets eroding, the biomedical community needs to get more return from the data it has already generated.

Professors at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia, are using retracted studies to teach biology and chemistry students about the process of science.

Authors retract a decade-old, highly-cited cancer study, admitting sloppy mistakes in the data analysis.

Maria Konnikova says the field of psychology has something to learn from great works of fiction.