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Behavioral traits get passed on via an animal’s genetics, but a new study reveals that the microbiome can pass them on too, providing insight into animal evolution.

This postdoc uses genomics and molecular imaging to explore how cells lose order and turn malignant.

This postdoc studies the molecular dynamics in polymers to enhance the strength and flexibility of plastics.

The devastating retrovirus HTLV-1 has eluded scientists for decades. Overcoming chronic funding and other challenges, potential treatments are finally within grasp.

The reason dogs beg, sit, stay, and shake for peanut butter could be both evolutionarily wired and learned behavior.

Flies carrying disease-causing microbes will likely contaminate the food they touch, but different factors determine whether the person who eats it will get sick.

Scientists leveraged plants’ built-in regeneration capacity to grow modified plants in weeks instead of months, offering a novel tool in plant biotechnology.

Microscopic wireless electronic devices hitch a ride on immune cells to reach the brain, offering therapeutic avenues for brain cancers and neurodegeneration.

This postdoc explores how gut and oral bacteria wage microscopic battles that shape infection and health.

Legal and ethical guidelines have struggled to keep up with the pace of neural organoid research. Concerned neuroscientists and bioethicists are calling for changes.

Transplanting human gastric organoids engineered to release insulin in diabetic mice reduced hyperglycemia, offering a therapeutic avenue for type 1 diabetes.

With the shrinking federal funding landscape, academics look to embrace industry collaborations. How does one build impactful partnerships?