Rebecca Roberts,PhD

Rebecca Roberts, PhD

Articles by Rebecca Roberts, PhD

A liver, supplied with blood vessels, glows red on a background filled with red blood cells.

Macrophages Gobble Up Old Neutrophils to Heal Transplanted Livers

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Moss Medicines: The Next Revolution in Biotech?

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How Biofilms Threaten Human Health

Petros Giannikopoulos (right) and Fyodor Urnov (left) stand in the lab where the on-demand CRISPR therapy was produced. They are both wearing blue shirts and glasses.

Baby KJ’s Bespoke Gene Therapy Is a Masterclass in Scientific Collaboration

An MRI image of a human brain, with a glowing red section which indicates a tumor.

Why Are Breast Cancers That Metastasize to the Brain Hard to Treat?

Micrograph of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Some pink- and purple-colored cells against a pink background.

Final Destination: Distinct Cell Differentiation Patterns in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Revealed

The three-dimensional structure of a GPCR protein, with pink and blue shaded alpha helices

G Protein-Coupled Receptors and Their Role as Drug Targets

A white dire wolf stands in a grassy enclosure in front of a pile of logs.

Dire Wolf De-Extinction Debate Divides Scientists

A Culex annulirostris mosquito, which transmits Japanese encephalitis virus, on a white background.

Australia Braces for a Deadly Viral Threat Spurred by Cyclone Alfred

A map showing multiple GPS pins scattered among intersecting road lines and yellow squares. The image is a metaphor for spatial proteomics.

Spatial Proteomics and Deep Visual Proteomics: A Revolution in Cell Biology

Bacterial cells float around a DNA double helix structure on a blue background.

Exploring the World of Bacterial Genomes with Novel Sequencing Methods

A cross-section of the cell membrane shows the phospholipid bilayer.

Lipidomics Offers Insights Into Human Health and Disease

Several hands are fitting puzzle pieces over a cartoon profile of a human head

Study Reveals a Link Between Herpes Virus, Head Injuries, and Alzheimer’s Disease 

Cluster of blue cells encasing green tube structures. 

The Era of Organoids: Disease Modeling, Developmental Research, and Drug Response Prediction 

A digitized human brain in blue sits on top of a computer microchip

Artificial Intelligence in Biology: From Neural Networks to AlphaFold

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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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

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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