Jef Akst

Articles by Jef Akst

Connecting Psilocybin, Mushrooms, and Dreaming

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Phenotypic Variation in Cancer Cells Often Not Due to Mutations

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Some Honey Bee Swarms Generate Electrical Charges Stronger Than Storms

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Q&A: Why eLife Is Doing Away with Rejections

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Genes that Aided Black Death Survival Linked to Autoimmunity

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Nasal Vaccines Are Commercially High Risk, Perhaps High Reward

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Synthetic RNA Can Build Peptides, Hinting at Life’s Beginnings

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Study Nearly Doubles Known Cancer-Linked Mutational Signatures

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Unearthing the Evolutionary Origins of Insect Wings

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PLOS ONE Pulls Five Papers Tied to Alzheimer’s Drug Controversy

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Could Cancer’s Microbiome Help Diagnose and Treat the Disease?

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Infographic: Putting Cancer’s Unique Microbiomes to Use

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Munich Court Ruling Sides with Elsevier, ACS over ResearchGate

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CRISPR Patent Ruling Favors Broad Institute

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Ten Years On, CAR T Cell Recipient Is Still Cancer-Free

July Digest 2025
July 2025, Issue 1

What Causes an Earworm?

Memory-enhancing neural networks may also drive involuntary musical loops in the brain.

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Explore synthetic DNA’s many applications in cancer research

Weaving the Fabric of Cancer Research with Synthetic DNA

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Enhancing Elution of Plasmid DNA

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Maximizing Lentivirus Recovery

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Explore new strategies for improving plasmid DNA manufacturing workflows.

Overcoming Obstacles in Plasmid DNA Manufacturing

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