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An immune-inhibiting protein that regulates autophagy halts breast cancers from venturing across tissue borders.

Scientists devised a synthetic protein-based motor fueled by biological reactions to cut through a peptide lawn.

Staphylococcus aureus vaccine efficacy depends on the immune imprints from past exposures to the microbe.

Researchers bolster antitumor immune defenses using cancer vaccines made from DNA origami.

A minimally invasive strategy for creating fetal organoids could facilitate precision medicine in the womb.

A new prime editing sensor library targeting p53 mutations allowed scientists to interrogate thousands of tumor genotypes as they arose in endogenous contexts.

CRISPR-carrying lipid nanoparticles enabled researchers to correct a rare nonsense mutation in the lungs of a cystic fibrosis mouse model.

What happens on the other side of the paper publication submission portal? Christopher Rodrigues, who serves as a journal associate editor, revealed the process.

Neuroscientist Anthony Isles studies how the epigenetic phenomenon of genomic imprinting influences the brain and its functions.

Vaccination through the eyes stimulated a protective response in the brains of mice, revealing an immunological link between these two organs.

Bacterial superorganisms must evolve defenses to fight off infections, and microbiologists found that they use a weapons cache coincidentally similar to that of the human immune system.

A transcription factor in mouse brains underpins stress, social behaviors, and possibly immunity.