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A new effort to map the most abundant microbial symbiotic relationships – involving more than 1.1 million forest sites and 28,000 tree species – has revealed factors that determine where different types of symbionts will flourish.

A discovery of how stem cells are protected from viruses could inform the development of therapies for use in medicine.

Magnetic stimulation of the brain improves working memory, offering a new potential avenue of therapy for individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, according to new research from the Duke University School of Medicine.

Researchers at UC Davis and UC San Francisco have found a way to teach a computer to precisely detect one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease in human brain tissue, delivering a proof of concept for a machine-learning approach to distinguishing critical markers of the disease.

In mice, skin cells have been shown to engage in two forms of competition, which are believed to be crucial to the cultivation of healthy skin.

A new study suggests that the next generation of hearing aids might match a listener's brainwaves with the "soundprint" of a speaker's voice, using that information to automatically turn up the volume on that speaker.

Widespread inconsistencies have been affirmed in the use of a common laboratory procedure, immunohistochemical staining, throwing study results into doubt and shedding light on the “reproducibility crisis”.

Speeding up the transformation of induced pluripotent stem cells into cardiomyocytes is of interest for researchers involved in regenerative medicine, and drug development for cardiac diseases.

An open-source RNA analysis platform has been successfully used on plant cells for the first time - a breakthrough that could herald a new era of fundamental research and bolster efforts to engineer more efficient food and biofuel crop plants.

Bumblebees are critical for some of our favorite foods, but the loss of plant diversity harms the humble bumble at a critical stage in its development which could consequently threaten food production.