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  • Mind the gaps! Proteins do better when packed tight

    Mind the gaps! Proteins do better when packed tight

    Research Explained
    04 December 2025

    Proteins are essential for life - from immune signalling to digestion, almost every biological process relies on them. But proteins can be fragile.

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  • How muted neurons in the human brain could be made to chatter again : treatments for brain disorders

    How muted neurons in the human brain could be made to chatter again : treatments for brain disorders

    Research Explained
    04 December 2025

    The brain of any living organism, in general, is composed of millions of tiny cells called neurons.

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  • How Tuberculosis turns our defences against us

    How Tuberculosis turns our defences against us

    Research Explained
    29 November 2025

    Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world’s oldest and deadliest diseases, which takes a toll on over a million people every year.

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  • Rice uses a single molecular switch to heal after injury

    Rice uses a single molecular switch to heal after injury

    Research Explained
    13 November 2025

    When a rice leaf is torn or bitten, the plant doesn’t just sit still. It launches a series of rapid molecular alarms.

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  • A new way to watch bacteria modify our proteins in real time

    A new way to watch bacteria modify our proteins in real time

    Research Explained
    24 October 2025

    Bacteria have evolved many clever ways to take over human cells during infection.

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  • Village relocations redraw the wildlife map

    Village relocations redraw the wildlife map

    Research Explained
    30 September 2025

    When Project Tiger was launched in 1973, efforts to carve out safe havens for tigers took on a new urgency.

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  • Ecological Factors Determine The Evolution of Antipredator Strategies of Animals

    Ecological Factors Determine The Evolution of Antipredator Strategies of Animals

    Research Explained
    26 September 2025

    A walk through a forest can be a bewildering experience. The whole forest appears to be running wild with insects of varied colours, hues and behaviours. Many of these traits appear to be deployed in defense against visually-hunting predators such as birds and lizards. Evolutionary biologists have long puzzled over the factors that determine when animals evolve to deter predators either through striking visual displays or by hiding in plain sight (i.e., camouflage).

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  • How does a species fight extinction?

    How does a species fight extinction?

    Research Explained
    10 September 2025

    In the 1990s, when Kauai crickets in Hawaii sang love songs with their wings to attract mates, a new island visit

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  • How do cells build organs without a blueprint?

    How do cells build organs without a blueprint?

    Research Explained
    10 September 2025

    For cells to form functional organs, they must not only multiply but also migrate to the correct loc

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  • A new database to predict protein function without complete 3D structural information.

    A new database to predict protein function without complete 3D structural information.

    Research Explained
    23 August 2025

    Proteins drive nearly every process within a cell.

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