Researchers generate pluripotent stem cells from two endangered species in hopes of learning more about the near-extinct animals.
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Researchers generate pluripotent stem cells from two endangered species in hopes of learning more about the near-extinct animals.
Quantum dots, typically used in imaging, also relay temperature changes within a cell.
The Yersinia pestis strain extracted from the bones of Black Death victims may no longer exist.
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Researchers design a synthetic bacterium that kills the infectious microbe Pseudomonas aeruginosa, sacrificing itself in the process.
A new exhibit at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia celebrates the work of an artist who is also the world’s authority on grasshoppers and crickets.
Sheng Wang leaves the Boston University School of Medicine and agrees to retract two published studies.
A new microfluidics chip lets researchers analyze the nucleic acids of 300 individual cells simultaneously.