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2026 will be the year that artificial intelligence accelerates multiple aspects of the drug discovery and development pipeline, industry leaders predict.

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Internal Cooling System Improves Recovery After Brain Injury in Mice

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Mom’s Voice Promotes Brain Development in Premature Babies

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Lab Waste Is Not Inevitable: How to Reduce, Reuse, and Rethink It

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Acidic Conditions Make Pancreatic Cancer More Resilient

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Postdoc Portrait: David Skerrett-Byrne

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Base Editing Corrects Mutations for Cardiac Disease in Mice

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Sound Is Better Than Touch in Helping People Keep Rhythm 

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What Is GLP-1? The Science Behind GLP-1 Drugs

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Postdoc Portrait: Abdullahi Usman

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Researchers React to the 2025 Nobel Prizes

Woman holding a stinky cloth. Some studies hint that hyperosmia, or a heightened sensitivity to smell, is more common in women.

Why Do Some People Have a Heightened Sense of Smell?

Vector illustration of several cartoon people in business attire leaping over and stranded by several cracks in the ground, illustrating the obstacles faced by early career researchers by recent funding and career development changes at the NIH.

NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers

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A Stubborn Gene, a Failed Experiment, and a New Path

When experiments refuse to cooperate, you try again and again. For Rafael Najmanovich, the setbacks ultimately pushed him in a new direction.

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