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A new study shows how the microbiome plays a key role in rendering the immune system capable of responding to pathogens.

Researchers have uncovered a cellular pathway that helps plants to sense danger signals and elicit a response.

Vaccine development can often take many years. To accelerate the process, a team of scientists have come together to create a plan – a coordinated and efficient approach - to creating vaccines against COVID-19.

Evidence from a large study of several thousand heart failure patients shows that men have higher concentrations of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) in their blood than women. Since ACE2 enables the coronavirus to infect healthy cells, this may help to explain why men are more vulnerable to COVID-19 than women.

The COVID-19 Ag Respi-Strip test can identify an infected person in 15 minutes at point-of-care sites that lack facilities or time for sophisticated testing.

A new study shows how planarian stem cells are able to postpone their own death in order to respond to an injury that needs their attention.

In a paper published today in the journal Cell, the Allen Institute researchers describe the third iteration of the Allen Mouse Brain Common Coordinate Framework, or CCFv3, a complete, high-resolution 3D atlas of the mouse brain.

A newly published study in Current Biology reveals surprising findings about the function of circadian network neurons that undergo daily structural change. The research could lead to a better understanding of how to address circadian rhythm disruptions in humans and facilitate preventing a host of associated health problems, including increased risk for cancer and metabolic syndrome.

A protein shredder that occurs in cell membranes of brain cells apparently also indirectly regulates the fat metabolism.

It works like a very fine "molecular knob" able to modulate the electrical activity of the neurons of our cerebral cortex, crucial to the functioning of our brain. Its name is Foxg1, it is a gene, and its unprecedented role is the protagonist of the discovery just published in the journal Cerebral Cortex.