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Cryptococcus neoformans' natural habitat of bird droppings may have allowed it to adapt to living in cerebrospinal fluid in the brain.

This is the first time the process has been seen in a living organism, and it could one day be used in medicine or for pulling microplastics out of the ocean.

The team were inspired by see-through sea creatures like squids.

Inmates will also be offered the freedom to cook meals, more gym time and the ability to choose their own shower times.

Estimating the quantity of microbes on the planet is an extremely difficult task.

The U.K. imports thousands of sperm samples from Europe each year, and a no-deal Brexit could see supplies could decrease quantities.

The research could one day target multiple age-related diseases at once.

Death sweeps through cells like a wave through an audience at a football game.

The finding could help scientists better understand how organs are formed in the body.

Scientists have found a new four-stranded knot of DNA.

"Our consciousness, it seems, does not become annihilated just because we've crossed the threshold of death; it appears to keep functioning and not dissipate."

The incredible result began with research started more than 20 years ago.

Researchers gave mice Western diets to see how their immune systems would react.

It changes shape in response to the temperature or chemical makeup of its environment, making it something between a chameleon and a Transformer.

"When I saw some of the cells in the culture dish rejuvenating I couldn't believe it. These old cells were looking like young cells. It was like magic."

If cancer really is a disease in which our cells act like their single-celled ancestors of eons ago, then the current approach to treatment needs a radical overhaul.

They don't call it the graveyard shift for nothing.

Over 3,500 bank accounts were frozen in 2015, the head of Rosfinmonitoring told Vladimir Putin.

Researchers see the disease accelerate in mice that received antioxidants.

Brain cells with an age signature could help doctors understand Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.