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Cadaver dogs have helped solve crimes and bring closure to families. Scientists are digging into the roots of their exceptional ability.
Black-and-white microscopy image of bacteria individually wrapped in nanonets formed by the self-weaving antimicrobial peptides.

Sequence Shifts Help Net-Forming Peptides Trap and Kill Bacteria

A cartoon hand with gloves holds a vial with red liquid, signifying blood. The person seems to be wearing a lab coat, indicating scientists’ attempt to produce artificial blood in the lab.

An Overlooked Protein May Advance Artificial Blood Production

Giovanni Marco Saladino, a postdoc at Stanford University.

Postdoc Portrait: Giovanni Marco Saladino

A person holds a smart suit embedded with wearable sensors developed by scientists at the Wyss Institute.

Smart Wearable Biosensors Power Pathogen Diagnostics

Polarized light shines through a crystal with a particular chirality.

Mirror Microbes Could End All Life on Earth. How Do We Stop Them?

Neetu Yadav, a postdoc at Michigan State University, wears a yellow top and stands on a grass lawn.

Postdoc Portrait: Neetu Yadav

Blue bacterial cells next to their mirror microbe counterparts indicating mirror microbes.

Mirror Microbes: Understanding the How and Why of Hypothetical Life

3D-rendered cross section of an animal cell, signifying the importance of cellular environment in directed evolution—proteins intended for use in human cells should not be evolved in bacteria or yeast.

Protein Evolution in Mammalian Cells May Improve Therapeutics

Astronaut Suni Williams displays production packs containing genetically engineered yeast and edible media for incubation to activate yeast growth.

Designer Microbes Aid Space Exploration Efforts

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Universe 25 Experiment

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What Happens When a Fly Lands on Your Food? 

A brown dog stares at a spoon of peanut butter in front of its face with wide eyes.

Why Do Dogs Love Peanut Butter?

A woman pulls on her dark hair, showing graying roots. She looks frustrated, representing how stress can cause hair to go gray prematurely.

How Does Stress Cause Gray Hair?

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A Comprehensive Guide to Next-Generation Sequencing

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Best Practices for Precise Pipetting

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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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A Comprehensive Guide to Next-Generation Sequencing

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Golden geometric pattern on a blue background, symbolizing the precision, consistency, and technique essential to effective pipetting.

Best Practices for Precise Pipetting

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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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