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How Losing Oxytocin Receptor Function Affects Brain Patterns Related to Bonding in the Nucleus Accumbens

Long KLP; Hoglen NEG; Keip AJ; Klinkel RM; See DL; Maa J; Wong JC; Sherman M; Manoli DS

The study looks at how animals become friends and stay together. The scientists found that a chemical called Oxytocin affects different behaviors in male and female animals. By studying prairie voles, they learned how Oxytocin is linked to how these animals act around their friends and strangers.

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How the Hos2 Gene Helps Rice Plants Fight Disease

Ren Z; Peng Z; Zhang Y; Tang S; Xiang S; Zhu J; Dong X; Tang M; Zhang S; Qin M; Qu Z; Kong Y; Xing J; Xu J; Chen XL

Plants and fungi are in a tug-of-war where plants make chemicals to stop fungi, and fungi have ways to fight back. Scientists found how a fungus that attacks rice changes a protein to help it survive these chemicals. They also found a new substance that might stop the fungus from hurting rice plants.

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