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Engineered gene drive shows surprising stability across 30 mosquito generations
Field researchers in West Africa today released the first long-running data set from a CRISPR-based gene drive trial in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, the species responsible for the bulk of malaria tr…
Octopuses appear to choose stress relief over food, study suggests
In a choice-test paradigm that has previously been used with rats and primates, researchers offered Octopus bimaculoides specimens a choice between a dark, enclosed shelter and an open arena containin…
Sleep spindles linked to long-term memory consolidation in larger study
A pre-registered study of 4,200 adults wearing in-home EEG headbands for two weeks reports that the density of sleep spindles during stage-2 non-REM sleep predicts next-day declarative-memory retentio…
Coral reef recovery accelerates when juvenile fish populations are protected first
A six-year comparison across 28 Caribbean monitoring sites finds that reefs where juvenile fish were prioritised for protection in the first two years after a bleaching event show 2.4× the live coral …
Wearable continuous glucose monitor predicts pre-diabetes onset two years before standard tests
A prospective cohort of 1,800 metabolically healthy adults wore consumer continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) for two-week windows every six months over five years. Analysis published this week shows th…