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Partners in crime produce extreme antibiotic resistance

Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterial colonies from a person with cystic fibrosis growing on agar plates
Environmental bacteria enter lungs during an infection and transfer antibiotic resistance genes to disease-causing bacteria.

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Secondary care gap tied to prostate cancer deaths

Black men who did not receive secondary treatment were up to twice as likely to die of prostate cancer as white men.
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Gene variant linked to risk of aggressive prostate cancer

Study findings suggest that the variant should be added to tests that identify cancer risks.
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Infant brains show capacity to listen amid competing noise

An EEG study provides the first neural evidence that babies have an innate ability to separate speech from background noise.
Ljubica Mihaljevic at a lab bench at the Institute for Protein Design

A WRAP for biology’s greasiest problem

By mimicking cell membrane environments, new custom designed proteins make water-repelling proteins soluble without detergents.
3D images of rotating brain waves

Studies trace coordination of rotating brain waves

Researchers examine the origins, destinations and behavioral effects of rotating waves of neural activity in the brain.
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