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A human brain against a background of double helices.
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Matt Perko
Differences in gene expression, not just their presence, seems to drive the remarkable specialization found in the human brain.

It’s all about expression

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Three mountain yellow-legged frogs perched on a rock.
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Roland Knapp
The Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog is recovering in Yosemite, a beacon of hope for amphibian conservation.
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Yellow silhouettes of a large female and small male mosquito facing away from each other.
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Matt Perko
If a male mosquito can’t hear a female, it’s as though she doesn’t exist.
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side by side photos of ferret and penguin
Ferrets are among the vertebrates that get the most tumors, while black footed penguins get the fewest
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An electron-microscopy image of the fruit fly's anterior visual pathway
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Dustin Garner, Emil Kind
An electron-microscopy image of the fruit fly's anterior visual pathway — all neurons involved in processing visual information and conveying it to the navigation center in the fly brain. Compass neurons are in the circular area at the center
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Samantha Mladjov pilots a drone above a beachgoers and dogs.
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Neil Nathan
With an eye in the sky, researchers can track white sharks off the coast.
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scientist looking at brain imaging scans
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Matt Perko
Emily Jacobs
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scientists in lab with crates
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Jeff Liang
UCSB ExFAB staff and senior participants, from left, Oliver Vining, Elaine Kirschke, Jean-Marie Volland, Nathalie Elisabeth, Sherylle Mills Englander, Max Wilson, Michelle O'Malley, Joel Rothman, Niels Volkmann and Carolyn Mills.
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Pedestrians in IR walk along a cobblestone street.
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Ildar Abulkhanov via iStock
It’s not quite heat vision, but mosquitoes do use thermal infrared to find human hosts.
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An illustration of macrophages attacking a cancer cell.
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Wildpixel via iStock
Priming macrophage immune cells could supercharge certain cancer therapies.