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Given the considerable uncertainty arising from underlying disease and social dynamics, detailed refinements to models often create a misleading sense of precision.
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With improved imaging techniques and molecular tools, researchers are exploring why pruning happens, how it works, and its possible role in disease.
Image credit: Science Source/NIGMS/Yinghua Ma/Timothy Vartanian/Cornell University.
Even among those with privileged positions, women will likely bear a greater burden.
Image credit: Dave Cutler (artist).
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Complex visual signaling and semantics in deep-ocean-dwelling cephalopods.
Image credit: © 2010 Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI).
The bilaterian Ikaria wariootia represents one of the oldest organisms with anterior and posterior differentiation.
Image credit: Sohail Wasif (University of California, Riverside, CA).
Inadvertent introductions of herbivores can restore lost ecological functions.
Image credit: Jens-Christian Svenning.
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