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Someone at Brazil’s Butantan Institute was sorting through spiders in the collection when they spotted something that looked decorative.

On a spider only a few millimeters long, there was a neat string of pale beads clinging to its body, like a…

Study area

In Peru, the study was carried out along an elevational gradient from 245 masl to the tree line at 3,588 masl in the Andes of south-east Peru (Kosñipata valley), with continuous and mostly undisturbed wet rainforest/cloud forest….

Summary: Relapse isn’t a failure of willpower—it’s a biological “rewiring” of the brain. A new study reveals how chronic cocaine use hijacks the connection between the brain’s reward center and its memory hub (the…

Cloning and purification of proteins

To generate H7N9 FluPol with impaired endonuclease activity, the PA(E119D) mutation was introduced into the PA gene. A pFastBac Dual vector encoding the influenza polymerase heterotrimer subunits of…

Study design

No statistical methods were used to predetermine sample size and the sample size was based on a previous study¹⁶. All attempts at replication were successful, and all experiments were repeated more than once, as indicated in the…

Pioneering gene therapy may treat a deadly seizure disorder

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