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What Spikes Your Blood Sugar—Potatoes or Grapes? It Depends on Your Metabolic Health
Stress dynamically modulates neuronal autophagy to gate depression onset
Mitochondrial fission regulates midgut muscle assembly and tick feeding capacity
Re-adenylation by TENT5A enhances efficacy of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines
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
Hierarchical representations of relative numerical magnitudes in the human frontoparietal cortex
Single-cell data reveal heterogeneity of investment in ribosomes across a bacterial population
Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance