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Veronique Greenwood

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Illustration of gut sending signals to kidneys.
physiology

How Bacteria Help Regulate Blood Pressure

By Veronique Greenwood
November 30, 2017
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Kidneys sniff out signals from gut bacteria for cues to lower blood pressure after meals. Our understanding of how the symbiotic microbes affect health is becoming much more molecular.

Frozen clock photo
Abstractions blog

The Overlooked Link Between Two of This Year’s Nobel Prizes

By Veronique Greenwood
November 27, 2017
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To better understand the molecules described by the latest prize in medicine, we will need the technique recognized by the latest prize in chemistry.

Missing Mutations Suggest a Reason for Sex
molecular biology

Missing Mutations Suggest a Reason for Sex

By Veronique Greenwood
July 13, 2017
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Sex might help natural selection purge excessive mistakes from our genes.

Bear melting still
molecular biology

How Heat Kills Cells

By Veronique Greenwood
May 9, 2017
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The proteins that unravel as the temperature starts to rise turn out to be among the most vital.

Clock
Abstractions blog

How Circadian Clocks Differ From Sleep

By Veronique Greenwood
February 17, 2017
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The circadian clock is in nearly every cell, and researchers have untangled many of its secrets. But sleep has been harder to pin down.

Photo of a sleeping rat with a teddy bear
chronobiology

Researchers Tap a Sleep Switch in the Brain

By Veronique Greenwood
February 14, 2017
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Powerful new experiments have uncovered some of the molecular underpinnings of sleep.

Illustration: Viruses Find a New Way to Hijack Cells
viruses

Viruses Find a New Way to Hijack Cells

By Veronique Greenwood
December 6, 2016
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A virus that causes crippling birth defects has been shown to do something else: It changes thousands of messages coming from DNA that control normal cellular activities.

A petri dish with an array of mutant yeast strains.
Abstractions blog

Why Some Genetic Miscues Are Helpful

By Veronique Greenwood
November 3, 2016
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A new look at the reasons why organisms missing pairs of genes sometimes do much better than normal.

genomics

Giant Genetic Map Shows Life’s Hidden Links

By Veronique Greenwood
October 25, 2016
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In a monumental set of experiments, spread out over nearly two decades, biologists removed genes two at a time to uncover the secret workings of the cell.


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