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For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch Grows and Divides

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For the very first time, biologists packed nonliving components into a cell-like membrane, piece by piece, and witnessed the bag of molecules start to behave like life. The lab-made synthetic cell grew, replicated its DNA, and divided, demonstrating the basic functions of a cell cycle. It’s “an impressive step,” said Jack Szostak, who studies the origins of life at the University of Chicago and was not involved in the research.
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How the Bird Eye Was Pushed to an Evolutionary Extreme

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By Yasemin Saplakoglu Verified
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When an optometrist shines a bright light into your eyes, a vast, branching tree sprouts in your field of vision. This is the shadow of blood vessels. Though we normally can’t perceive them, these vessels always occlude a portion of what we see, and for an important reason. They power the retina, a thin layer of nerve tissue in the back of the eye that communicates light signals to the brain. The retina is one of the body’s most energetically expensive tissues.
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A New Type of Neuroplasticity Rewires the Brain After a Single Experience

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In recent decades, neuroscientists have come to a “slow realization that dendritic activity is super important for plasticity and for neuronal computations in general,” said Antoine Madar, a postdoc at the University of Chicago, who led the 2025 review of a Society for Neuroscience symposium on BTSP in The Journal of Neuroscience. There is a “zoo” of different events that take place at dendrites, he said. They can fire their own local or global electrical spikes.
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