Four recent studies examine brain signals, muscle chemistry, cell-derived vesicles and bacterial genomes. Follow the measurement from the sample to the claim.
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A study of healthy adults compares ten ways to describe brain activity. We explain what the measures share, where they differ and an unresolved detail in the paper.
Read the guide · 6 minResearchers combined two magnetic-resonance measurements in healthy men. Our guide follows the participants, the missing measurement and the limits of the comparison.
Read the guide · 6 minResearchers describe relatively large vesicles shed by migrating cancer cells in laboratory models. We separate pooled DNA findings from claims about individual vesicles or patients.
Read the guide · 6 minA Japanese One Health study compared bacterial isolates from food, animals and people. We explain why genetic similarity is a lead rather than a complete transmission history.
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