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How the brain can harm the heart
A heart attack induces neural and immune responses that contribute to cardiac damage and heart failure, but the detailed mechanisms of this process are unclear. A study published in Cell focuses on the role of vagal sensory neurons (VSNs), which…
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A neural signature of adaptive mentalization
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The study was approved by and conducted in accordance with the policies of the Institutional Review Board of the University of Zurich and the Cantonal Ethics Commission in Zurich (study protocol 2019-00653). We recruited 506 healthy…
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CryoEM structure of mGlu6 captures receptor activation prior to G protein coupling
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Ray, T. A. et al. GPR179 is required for high…
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Analysis of factors associated with cervical cancer and precancerous lesions
Bray, F. et al. Global cancer statistics 2022: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries. Cancer J. Clin. 74 (3), 229–263 (2022).
Rayner, M. et…
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Amphotericin B promotes respiratory viral entry by enhancing late endosomal maturation and fusion via glucocerebrosidase-mediated ceramide remodeling
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New fossil reveals the weird 'tooth cushions' of an apex predator from 425 million years ago
Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws full of clusters of spiky teeth.
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How a protein pair ensures that faulty mRNA is destroyed
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is one of the most important processes in our cells to ensure that no faulty or incomplete proteins are produced. Scientists have now identified a central mechanism behind this control system.
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Heat-tolerant corals may help some reefs persist, but most still erode
A recent report on global tipping points warned that coral reefs face widespread dieback and have reached a point from which they cannot recover.
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A Simple Vitamin B3 Treatment Could Relieve a Rare Disease
Our bodies perform many critical metabolic reactions, using a wide range of enzymes and other molecules. When there is a problem with one of these metabolism-related molecules because of a genetic defect, a…
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