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Then and Now: Sangeeta Bhatia Tackles Liver Disease, Organ Transplants, and Cancer Diagnostics

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Algae Microrobots Battle Bladder Cancer

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Spinach and Light Power a Dry Eye Relief Solution

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What Chimera Formation Costs an AI Protein Screen

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Biosecurity Comics Help Communicate Risk and Inform Policy

Illustration of a person standing with a telescope looking out over a blue background with strands of DNA floating in the distance. This represents Daniel Lin-Arlow directing the science vision for the company Ansa Biotechnology as the chief scientific officer.

Career Chat: A Synthetic Biologist-Turned-Startup Founder Leads the Company’s Scientific Vision

A hand in a blue glove holds a white chicken egg while a syringe is inserted into the yolk.

Chicken Eggs Become Bioreactors to Brew Low-Cost Medicines

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Postdoc Portrait: Richa Guleria Conducts Microbial Engineering for Space Biomanufacturing 

Greyscale photograph of J Craig Venter. Venter has a short white beard and  is wearing a patterned suit jacket with a gold pin on one lapel over a light blue button-down shirt.

J Craig Venter, “Swashbuckling” Geneticist and Human Genome Pioneer, Dies at 79

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Then and Now: Benjamin tenOever Programs Viruses to Deliver Therapeutics

Photograph of Avi Flamholz standing in a field wearing a long black shirt and a large pack on his shoulders attached to a device in his hands used for collecting environmental samples.

A Microbiologist Mines Bacterial Metabolism to Tackle Climate Change

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Neurobots: Biological Robots with A Simple Nervous System

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Editors Mass Resign from Elsevier Journal After Editor-in-Chief Let Go

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Prolonged GLP-1 Exposure Remodels Gene Expression in the Pancreas by Flipping a Molecular Switch

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Cockroach Milk Proteins Churn Out an Ig Nobel Win

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Then and Now: Sarkis Mazmanian Finds Gut-Brain Links to Parkinson’s Disease

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Essential Genes Are Dominantly Activated by Single Transcription Factors

Essential Genes Are Dominantly Activated by Single Transcription Factors

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Rethinking ALS Biomarkers: From Discovery to Clinical Impact

Rethinking ALS Biomarkers: From Discovery to Clinical Impact

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September 2026

Multiplex Microscopy Becomes Easier with Encoded Antibodies

A new system that enables researchers to uniquely tag monoclonal antibodies for use in microscopy could help simplify complex imaging studies.

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Essential Genes Are Dominantly Activated by Single Transcription Factors

Essential Genes Are Dominantly Activated by Single Transcription Factors

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Rethinking ALS Biomarkers: From Discovery to Clinical Impact

Rethinking ALS Biomarkers: From Discovery to Clinical Impact

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Engineering CAR-Neutrophils In Vivo to Target Glioblastoma

Engineering CAR-Neutrophils In Vivo to Target Glioblastoma

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Best Practices for qPCR Assay Design and Optimization

Best Practices for qPCR Assay Design and Optimization

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