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  1. 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.
  2. Decoding DEE44

    A newly built framework could help researchers assess the impact of genetic variants associated with developmental and epileptic encephalopathy type 44.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Investigating antifungal tolerance

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

    The multiple pathways that can trigger cell death in response to infection are not interchangeable and have specific outcomes in different cell types.
  8. A non-winning combination

    Malaria parasites can rapidly evolve resistance to treatment containing two different drugs that both inhibit the DHODH enzyme.