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Scientist who tracks infections on cattle farms discusses implications of recently announced virus detections

Schemes to use renewable energy to process seawater may be cheaper and easier than air capture

Journalists’ decisions can impact researchers’ careers and public perception of who is a scientist

New monkey models may help predict neurological conditions and test potential treatments

The biological and biomedical sciences have seen the sharpest drop

The striatum serves an important role in motor control, and neurons in this area encode the body's initiation, cessation, and speed of locomotion. However, it remains unclear whether the same neurons also encode the step-by-step rhythmic motor patterns of individual limbs that characterize gait. By combining high-speed video tracking, electrophysiology, and optogenetic tagging, we found that a sizable population of both D1 and D2 receptor expressing medium spiny projection neurons (MSNs) were...

A major consequence of aging and stress, in yeast to humans, is an increased accumulation of protein aggregates at distinct sites within the cells. Using genetic screens, immunoelectron microscopy, and three-dimensional modeling in our efforts to elucidate the importance of aggregate annexation, we found that most aggregates in yeast accumulate near the surface of mitochondria. Further, we show that virus-like particles (VLPs), which are part of the retrotransposition cycle of Ty elements, are...

Videos suggest wild birds use complex gestures, like humans do