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Spring 2022

Cracking Cancer's Mysteries

Tumors’ unstable genomes and unique microbiomes may present new targets for understanding and treating the disease

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Adapting with a Little Help from Jumping Genes

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How Chaos in Chromosomes Helps Drive Cancer Spread

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

Critic at Large

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Opinion: Dismantling Anti-vaccine Rhetoric on Social Media

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Opinion: How to Confront Anti-Science Sentiment

Notebook

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Even the Tiniest of Birds Use Smell in Some Situations

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Researchers Resurrect Coffee-Destroying Fungus—to Study It

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Why Are Some Beetles Shiny? It’s Not What Researchers Thought

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Microbial Analysis of River Reveals Considerable Diversity

Infographics

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Infographic: How Transposable Elements Can Shape Evolution

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Infographic: How Genome-Packaging Protein Cohesin Handles DNA

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Infographic: Reading Proteins with Nanopores

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Infographic: Chromosome Errors Cause Micronuclei and Drive Cancer

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Infographic: Putting Cancer’s Unique Microbiomes to Use

The Literature

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Mechanism of a Genome Packaging Machine Discovered

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Epigenetic Changes to Placenta Correlate with Maternal Depression

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A Fasting-Mimicking Diet Thwarts Breast Cancer in Mice

Reading Frames

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Opinion: Going Beyond Seed Banks

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On the Trail of the Jackalope

Foundations

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Death by Nostalgia, 1688

Bio Business

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Cultured Meat Advances Toward the Market

Modus Operandi

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DNA Nanopore Sequencing Adapted for Protein Sequence Comparisons

Scientist to Watch

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Thomas Lozito Is Figuring Out How Lizards Rebuild

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Junyue Cao Applies Novel Approaches to Aging and Disease

Careers

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How to Bring the Public into the Scientific Process

Editorial

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Living the Life Pandemic

Speaking of Science

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Notable Science Quotes

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June 2025, Issue 1

Nergal Networks: Where Friendship Meets Infection

A citizen science game explores how social choices and networks can influence how an illness moves through a population.

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Unraveling Complex Biology with Advanced Multiomics Technology

Unraveling Complex Biology with Five-Dimensional Multiomics

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Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

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Seeing and Sorting with Confidence

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Streamlining Microbial Quality Control Testing

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Products

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Agilent Unveils the Next Generation in LC-Mass Detection: The InfinityLab Pro iQ Series

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Pioneering Cancer Plasticity Atlas will help Predict Response to Cancer Therapies

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How Alderley Analytical are Delivering eXtreme Robustness in Bioanalysis