A new study published in Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology reveals a surprising link between cellular aging markers and survival in black-legged kittiwakes (members of the gull family).
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Category: 5. Biology
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Study sheds light on behavior of yeast cells in the gut
A new study sheds light on the behavior of yeast cells in the gut, paving the way for new lines of yeast that more efficiently produce therapeutic drugs tailored to address specific diseases.
Yeast is promising as a drug-delivery…
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Why do female caribou have antlers? Arctic study points to nutrition
Biologists have long wondered why caribou are the only deer in the world in which females—like males—have antlers. A study of shed antlers collected from calving grounds in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge provides a new answer. The study…
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Urine tests confirm alcohol consumption in wild African chimpanzees
Aleksey Maro knows far more than he cares to know about the urination habits of chimpanzees. But if you want to measure the alcohol intake of chimps in a Ugandan rain forest, where a breathalyzer is impractical, collecting urine for analysis is…
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Chimpanzees love alcohol and their pee proves it
Chimpanzees love their alcohol. Among our closest primate relatives, they…
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ERCC6L2 ensures repair fidelity for staggered-end DNA double-strand breaks
Mehta, A. & Haber, J. E. Sources of DNA double-strand breaks and models of recombinational DNA repair. Cold Spring Harb. Perspect. Biol. 6, a016428 (2014).
Pavani, R. et al. Structure and…
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Idiotype-specific CD4+ T cells chronically stimulate autoreactive B cells to develop into B lymphomas in mice
Pisetsky, D. S. Pathogenesis of autoimmune disease. Nat. Rev. Nephrol. 19, 509–524 (2023).
Lee, K. H. et al. Understanding the immunopathogenesis of autoimmune diseases by animal studies…
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Author Correction: Cultured chicken meat developed by structuring cellular spheroids on an edible bacterial nanocellulose bioscaffold
Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or…
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Intestinal pathogens override hunger-driven decision-making via immune regulation of central serotonin signaling in C. elegans
Stein, B. E., Stanford, T. R. & Rowland, B. A. Development of multisensory integration from the perspective of the individual neuron. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 15, 520–535 (2014).
Hu, H. Reward and…
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Minimum reporting elements for ophthalmic vision–language model studies
I read with great interest the study by Meng and colleagues evaluating three vision–large language models (VLMs)—GPT-4o, GPT-4V, and Gemini 1.5 Pro—on ultra-widefield (UWF) fundus photographs for the description and classification of…
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