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Computational models are helping researchers to understand how certain properties of neurons contribute to respiratory rhythms.

Mice get melanoma faster when they have common, inherited variants in a few genes that control cell-wide changes but also respond to the environment.

Great care is needed when interpreting claims about the genetic basis of human variation based on data from genome-wide association studies.

Oral bacteria colonize the gut more frequently than previously thought.

Modeling all the chemical reactions that take place in a minimal cell will help us to understand the fundamental interactions that power life.

In mice, deleting a long noncoding RNA drives premature aging.

Identification of a protein that pulls HIV into the nucleus explains a key step in HIV infection.

A new genetically encoded system manipulates the pH inside cells to detect whether they are coupled to each other.

A long non-coding RNA called lnc-NR2F1 regulates several neuronal genes, including some involved in autism and intellectual disabilities.

Cone snails have evolved a variety of insulin-like molecules that may help with the development of better treatments for diabetes.