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When a fish beats its tail, it produces vortices in the water that other fish could take advantage of to save energy while swimming.

A domain in the ORF1 polyprotein of the hepatitis E virus that was previously thought to be a protease is actually a zinc-binding domain.

Expanding a statistical approach called Mendelian randomization to include multiple variables may help researchers to identify new molecular causes of specific traits.

The global spread of antibiotic resistance could be due to a number of factors, and not just the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture and medicine as previously thought.

The way neurons in the brain rewire in larvae as they turn to adult fruit flies sheds light on how complete metamorphosis was ‘invented’ over the course of evolution.

The circadian clock may help to control the development patterns which allow the florets on a sunflower head to go through their final stages of maturation at precisely the right time.

The transmission of signals from the brain to the tongue to control breathing depends, in part, on the balance between two gaseous molecules.

The ability of the adult zebrafish to replace damaged nephrons in the kidney depends on renal progenitor cells and renal interstitial cells working closely together.

A chemical regularly used to image cells can dramatically alter the way cellular compartments called condensates look under the microscope.

A new method allows researchers to automatically assign cells into different cell types and tissues, a step which is critical for understanding complex organisms.