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- Health & Medicine
Imagination Medicine
Brain imaging reveals the substance of placebos. Expectation alone triggers the same neural circuits and chemicals as real drugs.
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Sequencing the dead to save the living
Reviving ancient genomes of long-extinct creatures offers a window into past extinctions—and may help prevent future die outs.
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No gene is an island
Even as biologists catalog the discrete parts of life forms, an emerging picture reveals that life’s functions arise from interconnectedness.
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The decider
Informing the debate over the reality of ‘free will’ requires learning something about the lateral habenula.
- Health & Medicine
Itch
When it comes to sensory information detected by the body, pain is king, and itch is the court jester.
