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The quality and length of sleep affect the brain’s resilience to stress in mice.

A protein sensitive to mechanical signals controls how cells are renewed in the gut of fruit flies.

Introducing precise mutations in stem cells could become easier thanks to improvements in a gene-altering method known as prime editing.

Blocking a stress-response pathway starves hungry cancer cells by cutting off their fuel supply.

Analysing data from millions of individual trees in the United States sheds new light on the communities of trees living in our towns and cities.

Shooting cells through tiny channels at high pressure sheds light on the way cells bend and flex.

A form of artificial intelligence used for image recognition can help neuroscientists to analyse brain signals in real-time.

Research in mice with retinitis pigmentosa reveals that cone cells continue working even after they start to look abnormal, suggesting that the disease could be treated later than previously thought.