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'Brain-in-a-jar' biocomputers can now learn to control robots

Ants can carry out life-saving amputations on injured nest mates, study shows - Research on carpenter ants provides first example of a non-human animal severing limbs to curb infections.

Scientists Discover How to Make Ordinary Fat Cells Burn Calories

A new study indicated that TBC1D20 is necessary for normal postnatal uterine development and endometrial decidualization in mice.

Carpenter ant doctors amputate legs to save friends, scientists found

The Dayak fruit bat is the only known case of a wild male mammal that produces milk

Scientists have described two new species of psychoactive mushrooms in the genus Psilocybe, P. ingeli and P. maluti, from southern Africa.

Apricot kernels did not induce toxicity in the testicular tissues of male rabbits, unlike pure AMG, which had a negative effect on male reproductive structures carried out through oxidative…

Lizards wave their forelimbs in the air during male-male contests to signal their unwillingness to escalate and attenuate received aggression

Scientists find desert moss 'that can survive on Mars'

Researchers have discovered that zinc can make crop yields more climate-resilient

Multidrug-resistant fungi found in commercial soil, compost, flower bulbs

Researchers have used CRISPR to create mosquitoes that eliminate females and produce mostly infertile males ("over 99.5% male sterility and over 99.9% female lethality")…

A study of multiple Mycena mushroom species has found that they have unexpectedly large genomes

Mitochondrial transfer mediates endothelial cell engraftment through mitophagy

Building a Pause Button for Biology

Nucleocytoplasmic transport rates are regulated by cellular processes that modulate GTP availability

Why women outlive men may come down to the smallest and the largest cells in the body: the sperm and eggs that are central to human reproduction

Male fertility is a growing issue with a global decrease in sperm count and quality

Researchers discovered that nearly 20% of the bacterial strains studied could degrade plastic, though they needed some encouragement to do so

Circular food system approaches can support current European protein intake levels while reducing land use and greenhouse gas emissions

Structure and repair of replication-coupled DNA breaks (Science mag)

Social Isolation Linked to Increased Depression Risk, CDC Report Finds

Structure and function of the kidneys altered by space flight, with galactic radiation causing permanent damage that would jeopardise any mission to Mars, according to a new study led by researchers from UCL

Mapping the biology of spinal cord injury in unprecedented detail

European beech trees (Fagus sylvatica) spanning a geographic range of 2,000 km synchronize the production and dropping of fruit based on the summer solstice

Algae-derived compounds: Bioactivity, allergenicity and technologies enhancing their values

Engineered plants could bridge the nutrition gap between breast milk and baby formula

The strategy behind Cambridge’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Gut microbes from aged mice transplanted into young mice induce inflammation in the young mice that parallels inflammatory processes associated with aging in humans, new study finds

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