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  1. Pollinator palates

    A study in bumblebees reveals that they are unable to use the sense of taste provided by their mouthparts to detect and avoid pesticides in the nectar of plants.
  2. Nucleolar stress caused by anti-cancer drugs

    A number of anti-cancer drugs are toxic to the cellular compartment that produces machinery for making proteins, leading to unwanted side effects.
  3. Adapting to the environment

    Changes in a few key genes concentrated in the same regions of the genome have helped three different species of sunflower to adapt to temperature, water availability and other environmental conditions.
  4. Decoding DEE44

    A newly built framework could help researchers assess the impact of genetic variants associated with developmental and epileptic encephalopathy type 44.
  5. Calcium leaks

    Inhibiting an ion channel called ryanodine receptor 2 reduces abnormal calcium leaks in the hearts of guinea pigs and prevents fatal arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death.
  6. An ape album

    An artificial intelligence network trained on a dataset of annotated non-human ape pictures tracks their behavior better than networks trained on other species.
  7. Regulating LRRK2

    A newly discovered Rab12-dependent mechanism helps to recruit and increase the activity of an enzyme involved in Parkinson’s disease at the membrane of lysosomes.
  8. Investigating antifungal tolerance

    A refined single-cell sequencing technique provides insight into how pathogenic fungi respond to drugs.