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A large-scale international collaboration has identified new genes associated with breast cancer that could eventually be included in tests to identify women at increased risk of the disease.

In countries such as Peru, it’s not uncommon for people who live in foggy areas to hang up nets to catch droplets of water. These droplets then trickle down the mesh and are collected to provide water for drinking, cooking and washing.

New animal research suggests that little-studied brain cells known as astrocytes are major players in controlling sleep need and may someday help humans go without sleep for longer without negative consequences.

Scientists found that if you add tannins to a layer of wood dust, you can create a filter that traps virtually all microplastic particles present in water.

When choosing their behaviour in socially difficult situations, anxious people use a less suitable section of the forebrain than people who are not anxious according to brain scans.

Platelets secrete a protein during exercise that enhances neurogenesis in the hippocampus. A preclinical trial finds that systemic injection of the protein replicates the brain benefits induced by exercise.

Researchers have long known that the anti-aging hormone klotho, infusions of blood from younger animals and exercise can boost the brain function of aging mice. The underlying mechanism behind these changes has remained elusive until now.

The ability to sense mechanical stimuli, like touch or blood pressure, is essential to physiological processes in humans. New research has revealed critical information about how the sensory ion channel PIEZO1 changes shape to function.

Researchers applied “genome graph” techniques developed to detect massive structural DNA changes that rearrange, copy, and delete huge sections of chromosomes.

Researchers have developed a new method to reprogram human somatic cells to mimic embryonic stem cells better, with significant implications for biomedical and therapeutic uses.