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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

A new system that enables researchers to uniquely tag monoclonal antibodies for use in microscopy could help simplify complex imaging studies. 

Fluorescent microscopy of a fly embryo stained with five antibodies. Along the bottom, from left to right, the following colors appear representing unique homeobox (Hox) proteins: Magenta, Green, Yellow, and Red. Vertical cyan stripes appear above this line of colors, and in the middle of the embryo behind these strips is orange staining. 

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The Scientist Digest cover September 2026

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Multiplex Microscopy Becomes Easier with Encoded Antibodies

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Cancer's Microbes

Representative launch sequence of jumping L. biguttatus larva

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Image from a platform that delivers the genetic instructions into mouse hearts to express bacterial sodium-ion channels (blue)

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Microscopy image showing patches of magenta and green

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Caught on Camera

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Natural sunbeams underwater through water surface in the Mediterranean sea on a seabed with neptune grass, Catalonia, Roses, Costa Brava, Spain

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Infographic showing how a new bacteria species called <em>Candidatus Celerinatantimonas neptuna</em> lives in seagrass and how it provides the plant with nitrogen

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Marine Plant Partners with Microbes Like Terrestrial Plants Do

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Infographic: Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria Live Inside Seagrass Roots

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Illustration showing metastatic spread of bacteria alongside tumor cells

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 Bacterial RNA (orange) in human ovarian tumor  (nuclei in blue)

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Greg Sepich-Poore, cofounder of Micronoma, prepares DNA from human plasma samples for the company’s Oncobiotatm assay

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Illustration showing how cancer therapies, diet, medications, and other factors—can affect the body’s microbiota. (Dotted arrows denote unknowns.)

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Illustration showing translocation of bacteria across the gut epithelium into circulation, often due to cancer treatment

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Local spread of commensal bacteria in healthy tissue

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Illustration showing microbial signatures of cancer in the body

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Left: Picture by Larry Luxner; Right: Picture by Leore Geller from the Straussman lab

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Illustrations showing that as cancer metastasizes, cells travelling to other parts of the body may be accompanied by bacteria originating in the primary tumor.

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Could Cancer&rsquo;s Microbiome Help Diagnose and Treat the Disease?

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Infographic: Putting Cancer&rsquo;s Unique Microbiomes to Use

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Junyue Cao Applies Novel Approaches to Aging and Disease

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How to Bring the Public into the Scientific Process

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Book cover of Why We Love: The New Science Behind Our Closest Relationships

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Opinion: Can Science Capture Love?

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Could a tumor’s microbiome be the key to diagnosing  and treating cancer?