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Hunting the genetic causes of early-onset colorectal cancer

Using metagenomics to find causes of antibiotic resistance

High-efficiency genome editing toolkit for sorghum

Stress dynamically modulates neuronal autophagy to gate depression onset

Mitochondrial fission regulates midgut muscle assembly and tick feeding capacity

Maternal immune activation disrupts epigenomic and functional maturation of cortical excitatory neurons

Altered RNA-processing provides a mechanistic framework delineating human sex-reversal associated with pathogenic variants in the RNA-helicase DHX37

Re-adenylation by TENT5A enhances efficacy of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines

Prolactin modulation of thermoregulatory circuits provides resilience to thermal challenge of pregnancy

Twin modelling reveals partly distinct genetic pathways to music enjoyment

A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia

Re-engineering of acetyl coenzyme A metabolism prevents senescence in budding yeast

Microbial ecosystems and ecological driving forces in the deepest ocean sediments

De novo designed proteins neutralize lethal snake venom toxins

A plant virus manipulates both its host plant and the insect that facilitates its transmission

Chromosome-scale genome assembly reveals how repeat elements shape non-coding RNA landscapes active during newt limb regeneration

Hierarchical representations of relative numerical magnitudes in the human frontoparietal cortex

The microglial response to inhibition of Colony-stimulating-factor-1 receptor by PLX3397 differs by sex in adult mice

Anti-icing properties of polar bear fur

Tissue clocks derived from histological signatures of biological aging enable tissue-specific aging predictions from blood

Single-cell data reveal heterogeneity of investment in ribosomes across a bacterial population

Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance