March 2019

Going Under

Dissecting the effects of anesthetics

Features

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Are We Headed for a New Era of Malaria Drug Resistance?

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Can the Flu and Other Viruses Cause Neurodegeneration?

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General Anesthesia Causes Telltale Brain Activity Patterns

Editorial

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Drugs, Developed

Critic at Large

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Opinion: Individuals Are Greater Than the Sum of Their Parts

Lab Tools

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The Challenge of Using CRISPR to Knock In Genes

Foundations

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How Chromosomes X and Y Got Their Names, 1891

Notebook

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Prehistoric Microbes Inhabit an Oasis in the Northern Mexican Desert

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GPS-Tagged Seabirds Track the Tides

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Classic Mechanism of Epigenetic Inheritance Is Rare, Not the Rule

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Humans Made Tools Atop the Tibetan Plateau More than 30,000 Years Ago

Modus Operandi

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Stick-On Immune Cell Monitor

The Literature

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Without This Enzyme, Insertions Thrive in the Yeast Genome

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Archaea CRISPR Systems Grab DNA Memories During Interspecies Mating

RNA might have incorporated inosine, a derivative of adenosine, in place of guanosine

Primordial RNA May Have Contained Inosine

Profiles

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Master Decoder: A Profile of Kári Stefánsson

Scientist to Watch

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Emily Derbyshire Looks for Malaria’s Vulnerabilities

Careers

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Is Mandatory Retirement the Answer to an Aging Workforce?

Contributors

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Contributors

Speaking of Science

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Ten-Minute Sabbatical

Reading Frames

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In Praise of Crazy Ideas

Infographics

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Infographic: Immune Cell Monitoring Via a Skin Patch

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Infographic: How Stray DNA Can Land in Double-Strand Breaks

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Infographic: Viruses on the Brain

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Infographic: How General Anesthesia Works

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Infographic: Fighting Malaria Drug Resistance

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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