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Signaling imbalance, driven by too much excitatory activity, may be a consequence of whatever brain changes lead to autism rather than a cause of the condition.

Public health care will take a hit however Britain leaves the European Union, but a no-deal exit will cause the most harm, a new analysis shows.

This could account for some reproducibility problems in cell line research, according to the authors of a comprehensive analysis of HeLa variants.

Chelonoidis phantasticus, or the Fernandina giant tortoise, was feared extinct until an expedition found a lone female in a remote area on the island of Fernandina.

Documents about the experiment challenge a Chinese government investigation’s finding that He Jiankui mostly acted alone.

Some individuals sleep just minutes a day. And keeping flies awake does not have untoward effects on longevity.

All life on Earth uses a genetic code based on four nucleotides. Now, scientists have created one with eight.

Nearly 50 years after its development, only a handful of creatures have passed the self-awareness exam. A new attempt with fish highlights a debate over the test’s use and meaning.

The agency warns that plasma treatments costing thousands of dollars, which supposedly treat the infirmities of old age, have not been proven “safe or effective.”

High salt concentrations are present in the affected skin of people with atopic dermatitis and promote the differentiation of the T helper cells involved in the development of allergic diseases.

The manuscript had amassed more than 50 comments about problematic figures and data on PubPeer.

The large-scale experiments aim to test how the technology would fare in the wild, if deployed to knock down populations of the pests.