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Fish fins and single-cell sequencing help scientists glean new insights into tissue regeneration.

Scientific writing is often overlooked, but it is a skill as important as bench work. 

To improve traceability and enable authentication of synthetic nucleic acid sequences, researchers are embedding digital signatures into DNA.

From thrill seeking to morbid curiosity, why some folks enjoy a good scare has many possible scientific explanations.

Lipid nanoparticles deliver CRISPR tools directly to lung stem cells, offering new therapeutic avenues for treating genetic diseases.

Rock-dwelling bacteria and eukaryotes live in the company of the dead by feeding on tombstones.

The enzyme that copies and repairs DNA is more dynamic than originally thought.

A combinatorial approach enabled researchers to develop antibodies with improved catch-and-release abilities against snake venom toxins.

Human liver cells follow their own circadian rhythms, which regulate drug metabolism and infection.

David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John Jumper share this year’s Chemistry award for their research on protein design and structure prediction.

Initially mistaken for neutrophils, a population of atypical macrophages appears in the lungs after severe viral infection, orchestrates tissue repair, and then vanishes. 

Popular weight-loss drugs like Ozempic are used to treat obesity and diabetes. Now, researchers found that these drugs also affect rodent brains in other ways.