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The Secret to a Smooth Pasta Sauce Wins Ig Nobel Prize

A DNA double helix is expanded into tiny, colored dots, representing potential targets of prime editors.

Engineered Prime Editors with Improved Precision Could Provide Safer Cell and Gene Therapies

Mukta Sharma, a postdoctoral researcher at Michigan State University, against a background of corn crop.

Postdoc Portrait: Mukta Sharma

A woman applying cream to her face. The skin stretching in this process could stimulate immune surveillance and open up hair follicles.

A Skin-Stretch Approach Can Deliver Needle-Free Vaccines

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How the Brain Sees Illusions

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The Goldilocks Hormone: Oxytocin Keeps the Body Resilient

Joseph Gall stood in a pond with a net, capturing wildlife that he would bring back to his laboratory to study.

Golden Goose Award Honors Joseph Gall, the Father of Modern Cell Biology

Photograph of tan rock with two diagonal veins of lighter rock on either side. In the tan rock are several small, irregular spots of sand-colored rock ringed with dark bluish-greenish rock. These spots’ chemical composition was studied and found to contain minerals that, given Mars’s expected environment billions of years ago, could have been produced by microbes.

Martian Minerals Point to Possible Signs of Past Life, Researchers Say

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Postdoc Portrait: Kaustav Chakraborty

An Asian elephant stands behind a fence.

“Bench to Barn” Effort Protects Baby Elephants from a Deadly Virus

A team of surgeons wearing blue gowns, gloves, and masks are standing over a patient and operating.

After Centuries of Controversy, Is Xenotransplantation Finally Here to Stay?

A picture of Iryna Vasyliv, a postdoc at Stanford University.

Postdoc Portrait: Iryna Vasyliv

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January 2026

What Is the Amniotic Fluid Composed of?

The liquid world of fetal development provides a rich source of nutrition and protection tailored to meet the needs of the growing fetus.

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