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Scientists used structural biology approaches to gain insight into how sweet taste receptors detect sweeteners, guiding the design of better sweeteners.

Researchers are developing a new approach to preventing lupus nephritis – improving the health and function of the cells that line the kidney blood vessels, to prevent immune cells from leaking into kidney tissue and damaging it.

Researchers have identified a stage of neurodevelopment where differentiating neural cells produce fewer ribosomes, potentially offering an explanation for some neurodevelopmental disorders.

Particularly difficult DNA repair cases are now known to be transported to the inner edge of the nucleus, to be fixed by a secondary set of DNA repair enzymes.

Researchers found that non-hallucinogenic versions of psychedelic drugs promote neuroplasticity through the same biochemical pathway as psychedelics. However, they don’t activate genes long thought to be key players in that process.

A lung-on-a-chip system emulates different regions of human lungs to help researchers understand respiratory infections.

The erratic behavior of cell membranes could be explained by unified biophysical laws relating to how lipids are packed into the membrane, which were identified at the nanoscale.

Cancer cells coat themselves in a sugar to avoid the immune system, and now research has shown that dressing pancreatic beta cells in the same sugar enables the immune system to tolerate them.

Researchers have discovered that an immune molecule found only in primates, called IGFL2, plays a key role in regulating inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis.

Researchers have discovered a protein which is critical for steering melanoma cancer cells as they spread throughout the body.