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Two studies tapped into the brain circuitry that allows fruit flies to navigate, offering clues to key principles that may govern navigation in more complex brains.

Long-read sequencing uncovered hundreds of thousands of new isoforms not previously identified during development.

A professional detour veered Ludovic Desvignes into a high-maintenance career—director of a high-containment facility.

Instead of an on-off toggle switch, cancer cells adapt through a series of distinct states of increasing drug resistance.

Scientists have identified a new variant of the cell cycle that could provide insight into how diseases like cancer occur. 

Sensory neurons grow into injured tissues and modulate the immune system to promote healing.

An optimized version of prime editing technology raises the possibility of a one-time treatment for cystic fibrosis.

Ever since its discovery in the 1900s, the production of a potent vaccine adjuvant relied on the Chilean soapbark tree. Now, yeast can make the molecule.

Following graduate school, Sarah Carter headed to Washington, DC to carve out a career in science policy.

Evgeny Kvon leverages transgenic models and genomic techniques to uncover the ways enhancers control the transcription of genes.

The appendix is a small pouch-like organ of evolutionary significance that still triggers curiosity regarding its function.

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