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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

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Polyacrylamide Gels Turn into Mini Sculptures

A clear tube filled with ethanol and a preserved army ant.

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Image of a 3D printed ant. Part of the white exoskeleton is missing, revealing the inner portion of the ant.

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Rendered image of an ant are highlighted here in the 3D model through the different colors. The process to annotate these from a micro-CT scan is called segmentation.

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Antscan Catalogs a Digital Library for Ant Biodiversity

Science Snapshot

An illustration of David Brayden on a landline phone standing in a home office. He looks shocked and has a white thought bubble above him. Inside of it is an image of a glass presentation slide from the 1980s, which is framed by a white sleeve. The slide shows Brayden’s skin tissue sample stained with a dye to make the squiggly sweat glands appear red. A crack is running across the slide. 

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Photograph of David Brayden, a researcher at University College Dublin. Brayden is wearing a black dress jacket over a light-colored, collared button-down shirt. 

Epic Fail: A Cracked Slide for Christmas

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3D-rendered recombinant protein structures

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

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ACROBiosystems

How AI Is Accelerating Recombinant Protein Engineering

Photograph of Vishnu Tripathi, a senior scientist at Waters Biosciences, with a brown background. Tripathi has dark hair and is wearing a light blue collared shirt and dark blue dress jacket while smiling at the camera. 

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Illustration of Vishnu Tripathi teaching a colleague how to use a flow cytometer. 

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Career Chat: A Biotech Industry Scientist Bridges Research and Real-World Applications

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Image of dried polyacrylamide gels arranged together in a 3D flower shape.

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Image of a hand made from dried polyacrylamide gels.

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A photograph of Upasana Sarraju wearing a blue top and pink glasses. She wears a blue feather in her hair.

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A man wearing a contraption, indicating quirky and funny science.

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Ig Nobel: Inside the World of Science That Makes People Laugh

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BMG LABTECH

Advancing Targeted Protein Degradation Using Microplate Readers

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A photo of a scientist pipetting samples into a 96-well microplate.

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Addressing Antibody Developability Challenges Earlier

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Dark-field microscopy image of tiny gold nanoparticles against a dark background. 

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A dark-field microscopy image with golden particles that resemble a seahorse.

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In Search for Nanoparticles, A Researcher Strikes Gold

Instead of discarding used polyacrylamide gels, biochemist Palina Kot reshapes them    into artworks that reflect the realities of scientific research.