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Divvying Up Duties

Bacteria cooperate to benefit the collective, but cheaters can rig the system

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Pseudomonas Aeruginosa

Cooperation and Cheating

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How Bacterial Communities Divvy up Duties

Modus Operandi

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Scents and Sense-Abilities: Using Bug Brainpower to Smell Cancer

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New Insight into Brain Inflammation Inspires New Hope for Epilepsy Treatment 

Foundations

Doug Hanahan worked at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1982. 

Cellular Competence: Making Recombinant DNA Accessible

Henry Erlich 

A Not-So-Simple Idea

Sir Richard Roberts won the 1993 Nobel Prize “for their discoveries of split genes.” 

How Restriction Enzymes Changed Biology

Scientist to Watch

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Time Traveling Mini-Brains on a Mission to Conquer Space

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Combating Mosquito-Borne Diseases with CRISPR

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A Genetic Predisposition to Vitamin D Deficiency Contributes to Severe COVID-19

Infographics

Infographic showing how scientists hack the locust brain to identify the unique odor signatures of oral cancers

Infographic: Scents and Sense-Abilities

Infographic showing strategies used by cooperators to curb the cheater population in a bacterial community

Infographic: Curbing the Cheaters 

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Infographic: Capturing a More Complete Picture of Expression

The Biofilm Life Cycle

Infographic: Stages of Biofilm Formation

The Literature

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Vaccines: Sex Matters

Like many animals, field mice (<em >Apodemus agrarius</em>) fight to protect their territories.

Mouse Brain Cells Activate When They Witness a Fight

Speaking of Science

Multiple antibiotic resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterium

Ten Minute Sabbatical

Notebook

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Garbage to Guts: The Slow-Churn of Plastic Waste

Julie Trolle and Jef Boeke

Self Sufficient Cells?

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Waves of Macromolecule Production During the Cell Cycle

Istiophorus spp

Fishermen and Hobbyists Provide Scientists with Invaluable Data

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Study Confirms Safety of Genetically Modified T Cells

A long-term study of nearly 800 patients demonstrated a strong safety profile for T cells engineered with viral vectors.

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TaqMan Probe & Assays: Unveil What's Possible Together

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Meet Aunty and Tackle Protein Stability Questions in Research and Development

Meet Aunty and Tackle Protein Stability Questions in Research and Development

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Detecting Residual Cell Line-Derived DNA with Droplet Digital PCR

Detecting Residual Cell Line-Derived DNA with Droplet Digital PCR

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Making Real-Time PCR More Straightforward

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