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Using fungi in biohybrid robots is still “pretty new,” Mishra says. His team now hopes to test how such tech responds to other cues, such as gases. One way their robots’ sen­sory superpowers might ...

Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever ...

Cells attach to each other through carefully arranged molecules. A Kobe University research team has now found that the way they organize to find their proper places is similar to how grease drops ...

A new study has identified a genetic circuit in plants that controls individual leaf growth and allows the plants to adapt to ...

Numbers of cows and sheep will have to fall by a third, with their farms replaced by huge areas of new woodland.

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A new study has pinpointed cells in the brains of mice that have the unique ability to proliferate and may help to repair ...

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Basophils trigger a cytokine cascade that improves antitumor immunity in mice, offering potential targets for cancer immunotherapy.