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Superbugs become vulnerable to antibiotics when their proteins fail to fold correctly.

Growing rice crops with crabs, carp and turtles has many advantages.

Cutting and pasting beneficial genes may help primates rapidly evolve proteins that block bacterial infections.

Scientists identify a compound to potentially treat faulty ‘internal clock’ processes.

Unusually short and sparsely myelinated neurons in the brain shed light on the purpose of this insulating layer.

A new way to simulate the movements of large protein complexes could provide fresh insights into the mechanics of these cell machines.

A popular method for comparing cancer tissue samples can suffer from technical artifacts which can be mitigated with a freely available statistical tool.

A genome-wide analysis challenges a long-standing theory about how cells activate silent genes.