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Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman received this year’s Physiology or Medicine award for their work on RNA biology and mRNA-based vaccines.

In the race to deliver successful gene therapies, frontrunner AAVs come head to head with underdog lipid nanoparticles. 

As a group leader at the Broad Institute, Shantanu Singh develops tools to tackle high-dimensional biological data.

Pop music balanced blood sugar levels in mice, thanks to implanted human cells rigged to release insulin using a sound-sensitive bacterial protein.

Setting up a laboratory comes with no guide. Tina Lasisi, who recently started her own lab, offered tips on how to do it successfully.

In the developing zebrafish, a noisy and asynchronous activity jumpstarts the heart’s journey to coordinated beating.

Brain-like tissue grown in a dish mimics critical periods for development and reveals how it can go wrong.

Vaginal dysbiosis has long been a taboo subject, but studying and optimizing the vaginal microbiome could be a game changer for women's health.

Researchers studying lung cancer cell lines found that chromatin remodeling underlies one type of osimertinib resistance.

Researchers unravel the mystery of epithelial to mesenchymal transition in acute lymphoblastic leukemia with co-culture techniques, CRISPR-screening, and RNA sequencing.

Piet Borst led stellar work on cell organelles, trypanosomes, and cancer drug resistance during the golden age of biology.

John Jumper and Demis Hassabis received this year’s 2023 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for their work on the artificial intelligence system AlphaFold, which changed the landscape of protein biology.