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Young neurons in the adult human brain are likely critical to its function.

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Researchers are struggling to understand shifts in the migratory patterns of penguins in the Southwest Atlantic.

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Masculinization of the developing rodent brain leads to significant structural differences between the two sexes.

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Scientists know how to turn on these fat-combusting cells. Can these energy burners be used to combat obesity?

Two compounds boost the ability of melanoma cells to invade other tissues in mice, providing additional evidence that antioxidants can be beneficial to malignant cells as well as healthy ones.

Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work elucidating mechanisms of DNA repair.

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William Campbell, Satoshi Omura, and Youyou Tu have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition of their contributions to antiparasitic drug development.

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Researchers have edited more than 60 genes in pig embryos to facilitate organ donations for humans.

This year’s Nobel Prizes; toward developing a brown fat-activating drug; certain antioxidants can increase the spread of melanoma in mice; anonymity and post-publication peer review

In a small study of male twins, nine methylation sites helped researchers predict a person’s sexual orientation.

Commensal skin bacteria adjusted their community structure when frogs were exposed to chytrid fungus in a recent study.

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October 2015

Young neurons in the adult human brain are likely critical to its function.

Next-generation sequencing has identified scores of new microorganisms, but getting even abundant bacterial species to grow in the lab has proven challenging.

How male and female brains diverge is a hotly debated topic, but the study of model organisms points to differences that cannot be ignored.

A common tissue fixation method distorts the true neuronal landscape.

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Masculinization of the developing rodent brain leads to significant structural differences between the two sexes.

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