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Human microbiome, intestinal bacteria. [Artur Plawgo/Getty Images] Disturbances to the gut microbiome contribute to health conditions like inflammatory bowel disease…

Bacteria in the gut secrete a toxin that kills macrophages residing in the gut, driving ulcerative colitis.Image credit:© iStock.com, Panuwat…

A brain–computer interface developed by neurotechnology firm Paradromics contains electrodes that record from neurons in the cerebral cortex and then…

Researchers found that moss sporophytes exhibit high resilience in both simulated and real space conditions, a promising insight for future…

General methodsDNA amplification was conducted by PCR using Phusion U Green Multiplex PCR Master Mix (ThermoFisher Scientific) or Q5 Hot…

Gender, native-language background, and national income level shape researchers’ perceived publication productivity.Image credit:© iStock.com, VectorBirdFrom hiring decisions to grant awards,…

Evo 1.5 pretrainingEvo 1.5 was generated by extending the pretraining of the Evo 1 model, originally trained at a sequence context of…

Credit: DrAfter123 / DigitalVision Vectors / Getty Images A new paper from the laboratory of David Liu, PhD, at the Broad…

A combination of factors including capsaicin receptor sensitivity, personality, and cultural background drives a person’s taste in spicy food.Image credit:©…

Neuroendocrinologist Catherine Woolley and her team at Northwestern University were studying synaptic modulation in female mice when they ran into…