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Water bears survive cosmic radiation with one DNA-protecting protein, Dsup. Learning how could help protect humans against cancer, heart disease, and more.

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

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.

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?

Merging data, diet, and design, this postdoc transforms research into action for heart health.

The 2025 government shutdown has halted grants, delayed research, and risks long-term damage to innovation, education, and the US’s global scientific competitiveness.

This postdoc’s research merges clinical insight and technology to make diabetes care more human, connected, and effective.

Tatsuya Nobori brings high-resolution multiomic approaches to plant biology to map how plants interact with microbes on a cellular level in 3D.