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A brown plaque formed in a human brain produced by the virus-like prion that causes Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Experimental treatment could work against prion diseases like CJD

11 June 2023

Prion diseases are invariably fatal, but an experimental genetic treatment has dramatically extended the lifespans of infected mice

Octopuses edit their own genetic code to adapt to colder water

8 June 2023

When the temperature drops, octopuses recode their RNA in thousands of places to alter the proteins made in their nerve cells

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