Aparna Nathan, PhD

Aparna Nathan, PhD

Articles by Aparna Nathan, PhD

A solid tumor is shown in purple in its microenvironment, which is colored blue.

A Spatial Map Offers a Route to Better Cancer Treatment

Abstract illustration of a crib with a mobile hanging over it, and a woman facing the crib with her hands on her face, a cloud raining over her, and swirling lines in her head.

Predicting Postpartum Depression Before It Begins

A merged brightfield and GFP fluorescence image showing human cells in rats after engraftment

Patching Up Damaged Guts with Healing Cells

Photo of a gloved hand holding abacterial culture plate with blue dot against romaine lettuce.

A Critical FDA Program Has Helped Solve Thousands of Foodborne Outbreaks

Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria expressing pili.

Building Bacterial Drug Factories

A man holds his knee and grimaces in pain while sitting in front of a bridge.

A Nanoparticle Approach to Treat Torn Tendons

Top view of a red paper cutout of female reproductive internal organs with blood drops on pink background.

Reproductive Lifespan is Partially Encoded in the Genes

Six tubes, each with black dots representing flies, each fly encircled in blue, green, or red.

Combating Age-Related Motor Decline

A woman and a child sitting on a couch blowing their noses. 

A Better Mucus Model

Cartoon image of floating transparent spheres with smaller blue spheres inside them.

Study Reveals a Cell-Eat-Cell World

Artistic rendering of a tumor cell as a misshapen purple blob, surrounded by spiky pink blobs representing NK cells.

Maintaining NK Cells’ Killer Instincts

Cells colored in fluorescent green and blue are shown oriented in parallel with each other.

A Recipe for Hydrogel Noodles to Improve Tissue Engineering

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November 2025, Issue 1

Why Do We Feel Butterflies in the Stomach?

These fluttering sensations are the brain’s reaction to certain emotions, which can be amplified or soothed by the gut’s own “bugs".

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Olga Anczukow and Ryan Englander discuss how transcriptome splicing affects immune system function in lung cancer.

Long-Read RNA Sequencing Reveals a Regulatory Role for Splicing in Immunotherapy Responses

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Research Roundtable: The Evolving World of Spatial Biology

Research Roundtable: The Evolving World of Spatial Biology

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Exploring the State of the Art in Gene Editing Techniques

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Simplifying Early Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis with Blood Testing

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