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A massive research program investigating causal links between the gut microbiome and autism sparked fierce pushback from scientific critics and advocacy groups.

A New $50M Microbiome-Autism Project Gets a Serious Gut Check

Miles away from the closest ocean, marine microbes thrive in the red ice and mud around Blood Falls, offering clues to microbial adaptation and past climate events.

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Antarctica’s Blood Falls Teems With Mysterious Microbial Life

TS Digest

A blood red waterfall, Blood Falls, is shown as it exits Taylor Glacier and flows into Lake Bonney in Antarctica.

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Angela Zoumplis kneels down to collect a sample at Blood Falls in Antarctica.

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Red sediment at Blood Falls in Antarctica

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Antarctica&rsquo;s Blood Falls Teems With Mysterious Microbial Life

News

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Cockroach Milk Proteins Churn Out an Ig Nobel Win

The Nutshell

Image of two columns denoted “Gene A Alleles” and “Gene B Alleles.” Each column has three different alleles with three pathogen-related tags. These tags enable the player to effectively battle pathogens with matching tags.

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Image of a Victory screen with text describing the player accumulated 40 credits across 18 rounds. The player survived with 12 health points remaining and encountered 15 unique pathogens.

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Image of gamified immune cell fending off pathogens.

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HLA Defense: A Survival Game Exploring Host-Pathogen Interactions

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Sino Biological

High-Throughput Validation for AI-Designed Antibodies

Photograph of Viraj Muthye standing in front of a lake with trees in the background. Muthye is wearing a black jacket over an orange shirt and is smiling at the camera. 

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Photograph of a map of Calgary with blue, yellow, red, and green dots that correspond to bird sightings over different seasons across three years. The majority of sightings are in fall and spring, corresponding to blue and yellow dots, that are clustered on more of the left side of the map.

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Photo of a jumble of small yellow shapes—triangles, circles, and squares—written in yellow chalk on the left side of a blackboard. A chalk bracket and arrow points to the shapes organized into lines of similar groups on the right side of the image. 

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Data Visualization Turns Results into Stories

Interview

A photograph of Siew Zhuan Tan wearing a pink top. 

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A microscopy image showing an angel-like figure with a cyan body, magenta head, and yellow wings.

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A heart-shaped orange and magenta structure, which appears to have wings, signifying cytoskeletal molecules and cell nuclei, respectively, in an avian neural tube.

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Quail Embryos Illuminate Human Birth Defects

Science Snapshot

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A photograph of Luísa Amado against a natural background wearing a black top.

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Sketching Science: From Quirks of the Lab Life to Explaining Concepts

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Running Diagnostics

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Photograph of Daniel Lin-Arlow in front of a blurred background of a research lab. Lin-Arlow has short light brain hair and is wearing a grey long-sleeve shirt with a puffy black vest over it. 

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Illustration of a person standing with a telescope looking out over a blue background with strands of DNA floating in the distance. This represents Daniel Lin-Arlow directing the science vision for the company Ansa Biotechnology as the chief scientific officer. 

Antarctica’s Blood Falls Teems With Mysterious Microbial Life

Miles away from the closest ocean, marine microbes thrive in the red ice and mud around Blood Falls, offering clues to microbial adaptation and past climate events.

Antarctica’s Blood Falls Teems With Mysterious Microbial Life

Cockroach Milk Proteins Churn Out an Ig Nobel Win

HLA Defense: A Survival Game Exploring Host-Pathogen Interactions

High-Throughput Validation for AI-Designed Antibodies

Data Visualization Turns Results into Stories

Quail Embryos Illuminate Human Birth Defects

Sketching Science: From Quirks of the Lab Life to Explaining Concepts

Running Diagnostics

Career Chat: A Synthetic Biologist-Turned-Startup Founder Leads the Company’s Scientific Vision