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Benedetta Artegiani and Delilah Hendriks formed a joint laboratory group to understand disease mechanisms and treatments through organoid models.

The effect appears to be mediated by a gut-secreted peptide that signals to neurons in the brain that modulate the response to mechanical vibrations.

The Lundbeck Foundation announces an international cohort of neuroscientists have collectively won the €1.3 million Brain Prize.

The authors claim that by preventing the formation of senescent cells, the protein could delay aging, but experts are skeptical.

Researchers found that copepod genomes adapt in distinct ways when simultaneously exposed to multiple environmental conditions.

Researchers discover new idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis risk factors with multi-ancestry analyses that increase representation of understudied populations.

The opportunistic pathogen Klebsiella aerogenes degrades estradiol and induces depressive-like behavior in mice, a study finds.

A study deepens the scientific understanding of how androgens influence breast tissue, which may offer clues to treating breast cancer. 

Regulatory T cells in the colon travel to muscles to promote wound healing in mice, raising questions about how antibiotics may impact injury recovery.

Contact inhibition of locomotion by adhesion receptors prevents cancer cells from eating each other. 

The winding trail of environmental microplastics is leading researchers to the human digestive ecosystem.

The findings could help researchers understand why some individuals are more vulnerable to deadly Chagas disease.