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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

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A man wearing knee-high boots stands in ankle-deep, muddy water at night, holding a wet camera. Dense brine shrimp in the shallow water obscure the thrombolites on the lakebed.

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Article

A photograph of Radhika Patnala, wearing an off-white top, with her artwork.

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Pink, light blue, and off-white cells against a blue background. 

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Artwork titled “Cherry Blossom Microglia” showing pink microglia and green neurons against a blue background in 3D. 

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&ldquo;Dreaming Cells&rdquo; Exhibit: The Art of Seeing Cells in Everyday Scenes

Science Snapshot

 Illustrated blood-based biomarker testing tubes and a low-poly blood droplet

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Fujirebio is a Japanese multinational biotechnology company, founded and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and present locally with offices in Japan, Asia, Europe and the United States and through a large international distribution network. The company has manufacturing facilities in Japan, Europe and the United States.

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Fujirebio Diagnostics

Blood-Based Biomarkers Expand Access to Alzheimer&rsquo;s Disease Assessment

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Image of an orange oocyte at the center of the image, with blue and yellow extensions surrounding the human egg.

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Image of a depiction of a lysosome with three anthropomorphic figures within the cell.

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An artistic representation of autophagy inspired by transmission electron microscopy imagery.

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A Window into the Cellular World Through an Artist&rsquo;s Lens

Vector image of a crowd talking about science with colorful speech bubbles. 

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Vector image of a crowd talking about science with colorful speech bubbles.

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Image of people peering at rare bird books.

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Image of Melanie Ortiz Alvarez de la Campa (left) and Mai Huynh (right) holding an award.

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Graduate Students Champion Science Diplomacy Beyond the Lab

Photograph of Pavan Subramani, a high school student. He has dark hair and black glasses and is wearing a dark T-shirt.

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3D illustration of gray protein shapes overlaid with colorful ball-and-stick models showing their atomic interactions to represent molecular dynamic simulations of protein interactions with drugs. 

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High Schooler Tackles Computational Drug Discovery

Interview

Photograph of a man standing in front of a seated audience outdoors at night indicating to a video screen and holding a microphone. 

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Photograph of an outdoor event with a raised section with a picnic table in the foreground and more cocktail tables arranged on the ground in the rest of the photo. People are gathered at the tables with plates of food and are talking. 

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Photograph of two women sitting in folding chairs and holding microphones, laughing together. 

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Photo of an unlit movie theater with a film showing two astronauts in space suits walking across a dusty surface. 

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Lights, Camera, Science! The Science and Entertainment Exchange Brings Real Science to Hollywood

A microscopy image of the mouse uterine tissue against a black background. A magenta layer encloses a cyan layer, which encloses green and magenta cells. 

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A microscopy image of the mouse uterine tissue against a black background. The tissue appears round, with empty space in the center surrounded by cyan-colored cells which give way to spherical cyan and magenta structures. This is surrounded by a magenta circle.  

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Microscopy Offers a New View into Uterine Repair

A comic with four black and white panels shows people sick in the hospital, getting tested of an infection, an investigation of the source, and the biosecurity response.

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A series of images used in the biosecurity comics are shown as black and white line drawings. Many of the people and animals have elongated eyes, which is characteristic of a traditional Indian art form.

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An image of the globe with a DNA molecule on one side and another DNA molecule of the opposite chirality is shown on the other side, representing mirror life, a biosecurity threat.

Epic Fail: Sea-Monkeys Sabotage Fieldwork

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

Epic Fail: Sea-Monkeys Sabotage Fieldwork

“Dreaming Cells” Exhibit: The Art of Seeing Cells in Everyday Scenes

Blood-Based Biomarkers Expand Access to Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment

A Window into the Cellular World Through an Artist’s Lens

Graduate Students Champion Science Diplomacy Beyond the Lab

High Schooler Tackles Computational Drug Discovery

Lights, Camera, Science! The Science and Entertainment Exchange Brings Real Science to Hollywood

Microscopy Offers a New View into Uterine Repair

Biosecurity Comics Help Communicate Risk and Inform Policy