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Andrea Lius, PhD

Articles by Andrea Lius, PhD

A paintbrush with orange paint colors a grey dinosaur on a pink background, representing researchers’ efforts to reconstruct dinosaur colors in the past decade.

Debate on Dinosaur Colors Persists After 15 Years 

A woman pulls on her dark hair, showing graying roots. She looks frustrated, representing how stress can cause hair to go gray prematurely.

How Does Stress Cause Gray Hair?

Many consider 39,000-year-old Yuka to be one of the best-preserved woolly mammoths discovered to date. Tusk hunters unearthed Yuka in the northern Siberian permafrost in 2010, and it has been on display in frozen conditions at the Yakutsk State Museum in Moscow since 2014.

39,000-Year-Old Mammoth RNA Is the Oldest Ever Found and Sequenced

Black-and-white image of James Watson, wearing a black jacket over a shirt and tie, poses in a room with a model of the DNA double helix, which he co-discovered in 1953, in the background.

James Watson, Nobel Laureate Who Co-Discovered DNA Structure, Dies at 97

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What Happens When a Fly Lands on Your Food? 

Several miniature brain models, representing human neural organoids, often colloquially called minibrains, are laid out on a light blue surface. The pattern of these organoids seem arrow-like, indicating the future directions of the field that neuroscientists and ethicists envision.

Human Neural Organoid Research Needs Better Regulation

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Age Sways Europe’s Bloodstream Infection Rate Projections

A keyboard with a “Copy/Paste” key in red, indicating image duplication issues that plague some research fields, such as animal models of a type of stroke called subarachnoid hemorrhage.

40 Percent of Stroke Animal Studies May Have Problematic Images

Brightly colored water, representing chemical waste contamination by PFAS, drains into a natural body of water.

Short-Chain PFAS Eclipse Their Longer Counterparts in Blood Serum

A cadaver dog stands on alert atop a pile of rubble, indicating how these dogs not only help solve crimes but are also valuable resources in the face of natural disasters.

How Do Cadaver Dogs Recognize Human Remains?

Black-and-white microscopy image of microspheres in snake’s solid “pee”, also known as urates.

Snakes Pee Solids. Chemical Analysis Suggests Why.

Planarian flatworms, organisms with an exceptional regenerative capacity, crawl on a blue background.

Flatworm Stem Cells Regenerate Through Contactless Communication

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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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