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Animals that can cheat death

Nature is teeming with examples of astonishing survival and even eternal youth: the jellyfish that resets its life cycle, the salamander that spends its entire life in a larval state, the newt that regenerates parts of its eyes.

Using a catalogue of mutations to predict resistance to antifungal drugs

To help clinicians choose the right drugs to treat fungal infections, researchers have classified the protective effects of some 4000 mutations in Candida albicans, a pathogenic fungus that is the most common cause of fungal infections.

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