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Differences in how individual bacteria sense nutrients in their environment allows them to move as a collective group, even when the shape of the population is disrupted.

To design a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 that the virus will find harder to evade , researchers first need to understand how antibodies interact with the spike protein.

The left and right hemispheres of the brain play different roles when encoding information from the same side of the body.

Structural analysis of a protein responsible for metal transport reveals new features and potential avenues for drug discovery.

Blood analysis identifies relationships between patterns of DNA modifications and the onset of age-related chronic diseases.

Genotoxic stress promotes protein aggregation in human cells by limiting chaperone availability.

A new method that can measure distances on the complex surfaces of pathogens and human cells could help researchers investigate how antibodies work.

A new tool that can easily measure mitochondrial DNA levels in the blood helps to better understand what controls the health of this compartment, and its link with dementia.