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Infection Detectives Use Metagenomics to Identify Pathogens

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A Microbial Milestone: The Human Microbiome Project

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A Comprehensive Guide to Next-Generation Sequencing

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Many consider 39,000-year-old Yuka to be one of the best-preserved woolly mammoths discovered to date. Tusk hunters unearthed Yuka in the northern Siberian permafrost in 2010, and it has been on display in frozen conditions at the Yakutsk State Museum in Moscow since 2014.

39,000-Year-Old Mammoth RNA Is the Oldest Ever Found and Sequenced

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Optimizing Oxford Nanopore Long-Read Whole Genome Sequencing of Salivary DNA Using Oragene™ Collection Devices

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Green Spaces May Mitigate Pollution-Linked Breast Cancer Risk

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How Brain Gene Expression Changes Between Life and Death

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Tracing Neurodegenerative Debris with Six-Base Sequencing

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Illuminating the Dark Genome to Accelerate Novel Therapeutic Discoveries

By Stefan Schoenfelder, PhD and John Skidmore, DPhil | | 5 min read

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Living Maps: Uncovering the Spatial Biology of Plants

By Laura Tran, PhD | | 8 min read

Research Roundtable: The Evolving World of Spatial Biology

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Aging Reprograms T Cell Behavior, Weakening Vaccine Responses

By Nathan Ni, PhD | | 3 min read

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Postdoc Portrait: Adam Schuller

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Who Will Win the 2026 Nobel Prize? Scientists Make Their Predictions

From GLP-1 pioneers to researchers who uncovered the genetic roots of narcolepsy, scientists reveal who they think could receive a call from the Nobel Committee this year.

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Vipers’ Self-Defense Mechanism Could Spark a New Antivenom Strategy

Toxin-inhibiting proteins evolved by rattlesnakes protected mice from lethal venom doses and showed activity against toxins from some other vipers.

Sex-Specific Dioxin Toxicity in a Humanized AHR Model

Sex-Specific Dioxin Toxicity in a Humanized AHR Model

Explore how species-specific aryl hydrocarbon receptor signaling and biological sex influence hepatic responses to environmentally relevant dioxin exposure and inform human health risk assessment.

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Federal Research Grant Awards Fall to a Six-Year Low

An independent grant tracker's analysis of NIH's own award records shows the agency has issued fewer grant awards this fiscal year than in any of the past six.

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Evaluating Blood Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease Staging

Evaluating Blood Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease Staging

Explore how blood-based biomarkers perform across Alzheimer’s disease stages, including AIBL Study findings comparing p-Tau217 and other markers against amyloid-beta and tau PET reference standards.

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Evaluating Blood Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease Staging

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The placements follow the commercial launch of Pyxa at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) meeting in February 2026 and mark the company's transition from Early Access into global commercial availability.

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Oncology Researchers Gain AI Cancer Tools in One Platform

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