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A new laboratory model helps to understand the role of senescent cells in fostering a uterine environment that can support an embryo.

The repeated emergence of similar variants of influenza virus is linked to interactions between the virus’s RNA segments.

The fungus Aspergillus nidulans produces secondary metabolites during sexual development to protect itself from predators.

New findings clarify apparently conflicting results about how molecular agents that preserve protein integrity prevent harmful, dense aggregates from forming.

A theoretical framework predicts that using polygenic screening to select embryos against traits that depend on many genes has few benefits.

A new software package provides more accurate cancer risk prediction profiles and has the ability to integrate more genes and cancer types in the future.

The 3D structures of a membrane protein called TMEM120A suggest that it may act as an enzyme in fat metabolism rather than as an ion channel that senses mechanical pain.

Organ-on-chip approaches could help researchers to better predict the toxicity of cancer immunotherapy drugs.

The ability of corals to adapt to global warming may involve trade-offs among the traits that influence their success as the foundational species of coral reefs.

The parasite that causes African sleeping sickness can be transmitted from mammals to tsetse flies in two stages of its lifecycle, rather than one as was previously thought.