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Malaria causes the bodies of its human hosts to emit specific odours from the skin that make the hosts even more attractive to mosquitoes, perpetuating transmission. Researchers have now identified the odours as organic hydrocarbons heptanal, octanal and nonanal, whose discovery could bring relief to a disease that claimed nearly half a million lives in 2016.

Non-coding RNAs (ncRNA) exist in a limbo within cells, having been created from genes but never destined to be turned into functional protein. A ncRNA called Paupar has been shown to regulate a protein controlling brain growth, a first for these mysterious molecules.

Chemists have discovered a new and relatively unknown flame retardant, TTBP-TAX, in the environment. The chemical was not only identified in an electronic waste facility, where it would be expected, but in the bedrooms and living rooms of homes.

The life-saving drug used to treat opioid overdose, naloxone, reduces brain inflammation in the aftermath of stroke in male rats.

Scientists have engineered an enzyme which can digest some of our most commonly polluting plastics, providing a potential solution to one of the world’s biggest environmental problems.

A compound found in trace amounts in alcoholic beverages is more effective at combating seizures in rats exposed to an organophosphate nerve agent than the current recommended treatment.

Scientists have made a significant advance in the understanding of the complex and fatal neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

BRCA-positive breast cancers arise from a cell's failure to accurately repair its DNA. A study analyzing the complex network of DNA repair molecules has discovered a new group of proteins which affect response to some first-line breast cancer drugs.

In a new study, scientists watched in real-time as immune cells took on carefully timed jobs to fix the damaged lining of the brain, also known as meninges, in mice. These results may help provide clues to the discovery that the meninges in humans may heal following mild traumatic brain injury and why additional hits to the head can be so devastating.

To date, approximately 20 testing labs have received temporary business licenses in California which many experts believe is nowhere near enough to meet future demand.