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  1. What makes wasps sexy?

    Researchers find the patterns of chemicals responsible for making female parasitic wasps sexually attractive.
  2. A new avenue for treating fatty liver disease

    Drugs that target the Adgrf1 protein may have the potential to alleviate the symptoms of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in humans.
  3. Learning in your sleep

    Brain activity linked to performing tasks re-occurs during the REM sleep stage in humans.
  4. Social training changes the brain

    Three months of training to increase compassion or understanding of others can alter the function and structure of various regions in the human brain.
  5. Guiding connections in the brain

    Proteins, called neurexins, help to regulate communication through dopamine neurons in the brain of mice.
  6. Ripples in time

    Assessing changes in the effective population size of several species of shorebirds over the past 20,000 years reveals the unexpected fallouts of extinction events of big mammals.
  7. Regenerating neurons

    New evidence points towards the enzyme ALKBH5 regulating the repair of rodent nerve cells.
  8. Ageing effectively

    The protein HPK-1 in nerve cells of roundworms protects against ageing across the whole body.