Catherine Offord

Articles by Catherine Offord

Photograph of a waterfall

Falling Water, Rising Rocks, 1834

Illustration of a rat with red, white and blue sections

Hormones May Contribute to Asymmetrical Effects of Brain Injury

Immunofluorescence image of human tenocytes (cell nuclei in blue, actin in red) with PIEZO1 protein labeled in green (Scale bar: 20 ?m)

Mechanosensory Protein Helps Tendons Stiffen After Exercise

Five morphs of Poecilia parae—from top: melanzona yellow, melanzona blue, melanzona red, parae, immaculata—and a female (bottom) of the same species

Fish Species’ Y Chromosomes Diverged Even Without Recombination

Opening of Leang Panninge cave in Indonesia

7,200-Year-Old Skeleton Offers Clues to Early Human Migration

Blue stethoscope resting on a pile of folders filled with papers

Ivermectin (Still) Lacks Scientific Support as a COVID-19 Drug

Fat Tissue Reorganizes During Pregnancy

Infographic: How Pregnancy Changes Fat Tissue

Segmented filamentous bacteria artificially colored in green attach to the intestinal wall of a mouse

Gut Microbes Help Coordinate Immune Activity in Mice

Illustration of humans and mice and their gut microbiota

Infographic: Microbiome-Driven Adaptations in Animals

two black-and-white microscope images, one with a few black dots, the other with many rod-shaped bacteria

Identifying a Killer, 1895

An illustration of green bacteria floating above neutral-colored intestinal villi

The Inside Guide: The Gut Microbiome’s Role in Host Evolution

Image of a woman with her hands across her stomach. She has a look of discomfort on her face. There is a blown up image of her stomach next to her and it has colorful butterflies and gut bacteria all swarming within the gut.
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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Conceptual image of a doctor holding a brain puzzle, representing Alzheimer's disease diagnosis.

Simplifying Early Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis with Blood Testing

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