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Despite its popularity, the science and regulations sur- rounding microbiome testing are still catching up, high- lighting the need for better standards and oversight.

Regulatory Gaps Plague At-Home Microbiome Tests

When Barry Hicks set out to photograph thrombolites, thousands of unexpected visitors    photobombed his underwater images.

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Epic Fail: Sea-Monkeys Sabotage Fieldwork

TS Digest

A Stubborn Gene, a Failed Experiment, and a New Path

An illustration of James Trosko, now a cancer biologist at Michigan State University, with long brown hair and close beard wearing a white lab coat on the right of the image. He is holding a cell culture plate and looking at it inquiringly. On the left is a call out showing where, in the cell culture dish, pink, irregular cells are sitting close to one another. The background is an image of these same cells in a green overlay.

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A Mystery Result Caused a Hypothesis Reckoning

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Image of Lego DNA which features a sugar-phosphate backbone with base-pair molecular structures.

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Image of five LEGO Minifigures representing: Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins, Franklin's PhD student Raymond Gosling, Francis Crick, and James Watson. On the blackboard behind these figures are notes from Franklin’s notebook on the parameters of DNA.

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Lego DNA: Building the Double Helix, Brick by Brick

Science Snapshot

Image of a man in a laboratory looking frustrated with his failed experiment.

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Chimeric antigen receptors expressed by a T cell binding to the membrane surface receptor on a cancer cell

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ACROBiosystems is a cornerstone enterprise of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

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Making In Vivo Progress in CAR Therapeutic Development

Blue, green, and red dots make a worm-like shape against a black background, signifying human organoids grafted in mice that secreted insulin. 

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Reprogrammed Human Stomach Organoids Secrete Insulin

The Nutshell

A photograph of François Haman, who studies energy metabolism and nutrition in extreme environments including cold.

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François Haman, who studies energy metabolism and nutrition in extreme environments including cold, sits in a cold-water immersion tank in a snowy landscape.

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A woman walks under snowfall on a city street. Signifies that some people feel cold temperatures more than others.

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Why Do Some People Feel Cold When Others Don&rsquo;t?

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When experiments refuse to cooperate, you try again and again. For Rafael Najmanovich, the setbacks ultimately pushed him in a new direction.