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February 20, 2018

Helping in spite of risk: Ants perform risk-averse sanitary care of infectious nest mates

Ants care for their sick nest mates in different ways, depending on their own immune status. When they themselves are susceptible to dangerous superinfections, they use […]
February 20, 2018

Scientists find new antimalarial drug targets

Researchers have discovered crucial new processes that allow malaria parasites to escape red blood cells and infect other cells, offering potential new treatment targets. The team […]
February 20, 2018

Fancy a jellyfish chip?

A researcher became intrigued by jellyfish when he bit into the marine delicacy and experienced an unexpected crunch; he decided he wanted to ‘understand the transformation […]
February 19, 2018

Spatial perception of odorants in cockroaches

A recent study has described the first neural architecture capable of encoding the spatial location of odorants. Spatial perception of odorants in cockroaches Spatial perception of […]