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Andrea Lius, PhD

Andrea Lius is an intern at The Scientist. She earned her PhD in pharmacology from the University of Washington. Besides science, she also enjoys writing short-form creative nonfiction.

Articles by Andrea Lius, PhD

A honeybee feeds on floral pollen, its natural diet, which has become scarce due to climate change.

Honeybees Fed Pollen Substitute with Vital Fats Raised More Young

A cartoon tumor cell with a monster-like face flexes its biceps, representing cancer’s resilience against different types of stress.

Acidic Conditions Make Pancreatic Cancer More Resilient

Fingers on a person’s right hand tap on a drum, symbolizing how people’s brains synchronize their movements to musical rhythm.

Sound Is Better Than Touch in Helping People Keep Rhythm 

A black-and-white image depicting a barcode (left) transitioning into the DNA double helix (right), representing how microbiologist Cesar de la Fuente looks for encrypted peptides in genomes.

Hidden Peptides May Revolutionize Antibiotic Discovery

Green nauseous emoji, representing how gastric chief cells throw up debris to quickly mend injuries.

Stomach Cells Vomit Waste, Not Digest It, To Mend Injuries 

White smoke rises out of a glass of red wine, signifying the ashy taste in wines made from smoke-exposed grapes, also known as smoke taint.

Grapevine Bacteria May Remove Smoky Taste from Wine

Microscopy image of a fully developed frog embryo skin tissue, which researchers recently filmed live to gain a complete picture of the developmental process. From the images they took during this process, they quantified changes in cell shape and movement as well as how these changes contribute to the cells’ final fate.

Live Cell Shape Tracking Offers a Direct View into Developmental Dynamics

A cartoon blue man, representing sparse autoencoders and the AI tools that work with them, untangles black jumbled thread, representing the convoluted and densely packed information in the neural networks of protein language models (PLMs).

Researchers Decode How Protein Language Models Think, Making AI More Transparent

Black-and-white microscopy image of bacteria individually wrapped in nanonets formed by the self-weaving antimicrobial peptides.

Sequence Shifts Help Net-Forming Peptides Trap and Kill Bacteria

A cartoon hand with gloves holds a vial with red liquid, signifying blood. The person seems to be wearing a lab coat, indicating scientists’ attempt to produce artificial blood in the lab.

An Overlooked Protein May Advance Artificial Blood Production

A woman with grey hair sits at the edge of her bed, bending down and holding her right knee. She seems to be in pain—joint pains are characteristic of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, though researchers recently found that their immune system may have become activated before their symptoms emerge.

Inflammation Starts Long Before the Pain in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Illustration of Robertsonian chromosomes within a cell—researchers recently discovered how these structural variants form and are transmitted through rounds of cell division. Two acrocentric chromosomes, in blue and orange (with pink centromeres), are close to each other, as Robertsonian chromosomes would be before fusion.

Exact Breakpoints in Robertsonian Chromosomes, Common Structural Variants, Revealed

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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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