A mouse brain showing activated neurons (white) in the brainstem 3 hours after LPS injection.
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Specific neurons in the brainstem control sickness behaviors not directly caused by a pathogen, such as tiredness and lack of appetite, a mouse study finds.

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How Moral Disgust Can Simultaneously Protect and Endanger Humanity

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Why Do Some Runners Get Sick After a Marathon?

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Rare Disease Research Gets a Boost from Automated NGS Solutions

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Best Practices for Freezing Cell Cultures

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Nergal Networks: Where Friendship Meets Infection

A citizen science game explores how social choices and networks can influence how an illness moves through a population.

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Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

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