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How mammals’ brains evolved to distinguish odors is nothing to sniff at: Study finds that the relationship of ‘distributed circuit’ components scales across species
The world is filled with millions upon millions of distinct smells, but how mammals’ brains evolved to tell them apart…
Meet B. fragilis, a bacterium that moves into your gut and evolves to make itself at home
MIT researchers have analyzed population genomics and metagenomics to investigate the microbiome evolution of Bacteroides fragilis, one of the most…
Study uncovers genetic switches that control process of whole-body regeneration
When it comes to regeneration, some animals are capable of amazing feats — if you cut the leg off a…
Early life stress alters helping behavior of meerkat offspring
Parents make sacrifices to allow their children to have better lives than they did, but this isn’t the case for…
How transcription factors explore the genome
Transcription factors (TFs) are proteins that regulate the transcription of genes, which is the first step in making a protein.…