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  1. Health & Medicine

    An mRNA vaccine protected mice against deadly intestinal C. difficile bacteria

    An mRNA vaccine that targets several aspects of C. difficile’s ability to cause severe disease prevented major symptoms and death in mice.

    By Jonathan Lambert
  2. Health & Medicine

    Brain-controlled bionic limbs are inching closer to reality

    Bionics engineers typically view biology as something to be worked around. “Anatomics” engineers the body to be part of the system.

    By Simon Makin
  3. Neuroscience

    Scientists have traced all 54.5 million connections in a fruit fly’s brain

    By tracing every single connection between nerve cells in a single fruit fly’s brain, scientists have created the “connectome,” a tool that could help reveal how brains work.