Jennifer Philips, an infectious disease researcher and physician at Washington University in St. Louis, investigates Mycobacterium tuberculosis. She and Ekansh Mittal, an instructor in the same institution, wear laboratory coats and are seated. An image of bacterial cells can be seen in a computer screen on the background.

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A group of people in a laboratory. Lab equipment is seen on the bench.

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Red blood cells infected with Plasmodium falciparum parasites.

Immune cells are labeled with a red marker. HIV particles (green) from an infected cell are transferred to an uninfected cell via direct cell-to-cell contact.

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Cells infected with the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

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Olivier Schwartz, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute, studies HIV and other human pathogenic viruses. He wears a gray pullover and glasses.

The human Microbiome, the genetic material of all the microbes that live on and inside the human body.

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The Art of Microbial Disguise

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A stylized futuristic outline of a human brain.

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Front and side views of Ultima Genomics&rsquo; UG100 genome sequencing platform.

ThinkCyte&rsquo;s VisionSort multi-laser flow cytometer

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Meteor Biotech&rsquo;s CosmoSort spatial cell sorter

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A photo depicting the contents of the CRISPR in a Box kit.

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PhysioMimix&reg; Single-Organ Higher Throughput (HT) System

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A photo of a scientist loading their prepared library into a flow cell docked within the MinION device.

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2024 Top 10 Innovations

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Photo of Dror Kolodkin-Gal pointing at a section of an AI-generated image on a screen.

Detection or Deception: The Double-Edged Sword of AI in Research Misconduct

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New artificial intelligence tools help scientists fight back against a rising tide of research misconduct, but is it enough?

A reimagined lipid vehicle for nucleic acids could overcome the limitations of current vectors. 

3D illustration of a gold lipid nanoparticle with pink nucleic acid inside of it. Purple and teal spikes stick out from the lipid bilayer representing polyethylene glycol.

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A Nanoparticle Delivery System for Gene Therapy

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Diagnosing A Mass Extinction

Caulobacter crescentus, concentrating DivJ

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Antibiotic resistant bacteria inside a biofilm, 3D illustration. Biofilm is a community of bacteria where they aquire antibiotic resistance and communicate with each other by quorum sensing molecules

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How a Bacterium Manages to Reproduce During Famine

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Infographic: Nutrient Scarcity Drives Phase Separation in Bacteria

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A female juvenile vaquita, photographed in 2017.

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Overhead scene showing parents and juveniles of a fish species known as spiny chromis, and a predator (a peacock grouper), to learn that noise from boat engines can disrupt fish parenting, potentially affecting the survival of young.

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Chart of immune cell infiltration into lung tissue during SARS-CoV-2 infection in healthy (A) and diabetic (B) mice, as well as in diabetic mice treated with a sugar molecule that is found at significantly lower levels in humans with diabetes (C).

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A female juvenile vaquitas, photographed in 2017.

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Caught on Camera

Image of the Day

Illustration of creatures from today&rsquo;s crisis

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Dinosaur Fossil (Tyrannosaurus Rex) Found by Archaeologists

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Illustration of extinct creatures from the Ordovician-Silurian period

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Illustration of extinct creatures from the Triassic-Jurassic period

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Illustration of extinct creatures from the Cretaceous-Paleogene period

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Illustration of extinct creatures from the Permian-Triassic period

Illustration of extinct creatures from the late Devonian period

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Illustrations of the types of species who went extinct millions of years ago

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Are We in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction? 

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Data comparing the species in today&#39;s crisis

Illustration of creatures from today’s crisis

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Infographic: A Look at the Big Five Mass Extinctions

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Colin Carlson Works to Predict and Prevent Viral Spillover 

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Four different colour liquids inside vials glowing due to experiment.

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What If Scientists Shared Their Reagents for Free?

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Book cover of Anxious Eaters, Why we fall for fad diets, by Janet Chrzan and Kim Cargill

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Opinion: Why We Fall for Fad Diets

Is the current biodiversity crisis on par with the five biggest in Earth's history?