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A salivary protein in mosquitos can suppress host immune activity and aid viral transmission.

From normal vertebrate development to tumor cell cannibalism, cell-in-cell events occur in many different contexts across the tree of life.

Mutations that loosen rigid proteins turbocharge their nuclear entry.

Jeff Nivala develops nanopore-based sequencing techniques to help advance proteomics. 

A short term high fat diet before fertilization rewires sperm small RNA expression, passing predisposition to metabolic disease onto offspring.

A protein in natural killer cells keeps them from turning into more docile counterparts.

A new approach to sculpting human-like ears merges 3D printing, xenografts, and tissue engineering.

Synthetic biologists repurposed rarely used codons to install novel amino acids into proteins and expand the capabilities of protein engineering.

Beata Mierzwa combines her love of science and art in captivating illustrations and exciting fashion. 

Marburg virus enters humans from bats to cause viral hemorrhagic fever, but how it alters immune cells is unclear.

After 20 years, scientists studying patients with cerebellar degeneration discovered a mutation that disrupts autophagy.

Irene Ghobrial sequences circulating tumor cells in blood samples to genomically profile patients with multiple myeloma.