Mount Sinai researchers discover that diabetes drug may reverse heart failure
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Giant tortoises migrate unpredictably in the face of climate change
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General anesthesia hijacks sleep circuitry to knock you out
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Estimating the efficacy and cost of curative gene therapy for beta-thalassemia
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The brain’s imperfect execution of mathematically optimal perception
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Disappearing bumblebee species under threat of extinction
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Bioengineers program cells as digital signal processors
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Studies identify mechanism key to removal of protein aggregates from cells
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Pig experiment raises ethical questions around brain damage
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Electric skyrmions charge ahead for next-generation data storage
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Cell-killing proteins suppress listeria without killing cells
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Making digital tissue imaging better
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Reclamation’s S&T Project of the Year controls invasive mussel biofouling using UV light
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