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Humans and mice with a predisposition for ALS displayed altered sleep patterns before symptoms began, offering a potential novel diagnostic and treatment approach.

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Connecting Psilocybin, Mushrooms, and Dreaming

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The Mysterious Western Blot Message

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Sleep Rhythms Prompt Long-term Memories

You Are When You Eat

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A Protein-Rich Diet Helps Mice and Flies Sleep More Soundly: Study

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Book Excerpt from When Animals Dream

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Opinion: Animal Dreaming Should Give Us Ethical Pause

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Which Neurons Go to Sleep First in Humans? fMRI Can Tell

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While the Body Rests, Breast Cancer Spreads More Aggressively

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Pioneering Sleep Researcher Allan Rechtschaffen Dies at 93

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DNA Damage Makes Zebrafish Sleepy

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The Link Between Wandering and Sleeping Minds

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Groundbreaking Sleep Researcher J. Allan Hobson Dies at 88

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Researchers Exchange Messages with Dreamers

What’s in a Dream

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Infographic: The Technology Scientists Use to Engineer Dreams

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Opinion: The Biological Function of Dreams

Scientists Engineer Dreams to Understand the Sleeping Brain

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Penguins Are Among the World’s Slowest-Evolving Birds: Study

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Maternal Iron Deficiency Can Trigger Sex Reversal in Mouse Embryos

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An AI-Powered Scientist Proposes a Treatment for Blindness

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Taking Control of Cellular Contamination with PCR Testing

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Rare Disease Research Gets a Boost from Automated NGS Solutions

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June 2025, Issue 1

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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Unraveling Complex Biology with Advanced Multiomics Technology

Unraveling Complex Biology with Five-Dimensional Multiomics

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Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

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Seeing and Sorting with Confidence

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Streamlining Microbial Quality Control Testing

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Pioneering Cancer Plasticity Atlas will help Predict Response to Cancer Therapies

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