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This postdoctoral researcher explores how dietary shifts alter gut microbiota dynamics and host-microbe interactions in diet-induced metabolic diseases.
Liz Sullivan from Leica Biosystems explains how artificial intelligence enhances the consistency and efficiency of quality control evaluations for histologic slides.
Barry Quart from Connect Biopharma discusses the company’s dual-cytokine–targeting biologic that aims to treat acute asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations, atopic dermatitis, and other inflammatory diseases.
This postdoctoral researcher studies how telomere dysfunction influences cellular behavior, immune signaling, and mechanisms driving cellular aging and cancer.
This postdoctoral researcher investigates how histone recycling during DNA replication preserves epigenetic data to maintain cellular identity and prevent disease.
Glen Gowers from Basecamp Research and Christian Henry from PacBio explain how the Trillion Gene Atlas project pairs sequencing and AI to investigate disease and design therapies.
This postdoctoral researcher investigates the biological interplay between aging and estrogen receptor positive breast cancer to optimize care for older patients.
From aligning pipette boxes to wiping down benches, researchers share the quiet, meditative rituals that help them recharge amid the chaos of scientific discovery.
Explore how next-generation sequencing, digital PCR, and emerging whole-genome sequencing approaches can support sensitive measurable residual disease detection and biomarker assessment in acute myeloid leukemia.
Discover how single-molecule Fiber-seq is revealing unexpected mechanisms of transcription factor regulation, chromatin accessibility, and essential gene activation at CpG-island promoters.
Explore how emerging biomarker research and ultrasensitive multiplex proteomics are revealing molecular signatures associated with neurodegeneration, inflammation, and disease progression in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Explore how in vivo CAR-neutrophil engineering and advanced light-sheet imaging are opening new avenues for studying and targeting glioblastoma and other solid tumors.
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