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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The First Human Embryo Model from Embryonic Stem Cells

Women scientists work in a laboratory with a microscope and test tubes.

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From Stepping Aside to Stepping Forward

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Adipose tissue serves as a reservoir for <em >Trypanosoma brucei</em> parasites. The parasites (shown in brown) accumulate outside the adipocytes (white circles).

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The illustration shows adipocytes, cells of the adipose tissue, and Trypanosoma brucei parasites that occupy the extracellular spaces between the cells.

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Lose the Fat and Curb Parasitic Infection

Human body diagram with inset organoid types connected to target tissues (mammary gland organoid, liver organoid, intestinal organoid, cerebral organoid, lung organoid, and stomach organoid).

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3D rendered single cell next to a cluster of cells, illustrating the concept of stem cell differentiation and proliferation.

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Selecting Cytokines for Organoid Cultures

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Why Do Male Organisms Exist?

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Predict Functional Genomics with Confidence

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Fluorescent microscopy image of an embryo model representing four tissue layers of this developmental stage. Cyan-labeled cells are clustered at the top of an ovoid structure, underneath them are yellow-labeled cells and under them red-labeled cells, and surrounding all three layers are white labeled cells.

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The First Human Embryo Model From Embryonic Stem Cells

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Seeking Solutions for a Sticky Situation

A young woman wears a blue sweater with UNC written on it and smiles at the camera.

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A researcher looks at the screen of an imaging equipment. She sees a picture of a Western blot membrane.

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The Mysterious Western Blot Message

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Kathrin Dausmann releasing a fat-tailed lemur from a silver box in the dark forest.

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Do Animals in Warm Climates Hibernate?

3D illustration of Leishmania parasite against a black background.

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]: A colorized image of parasite clumps from a scanning electron microscope.

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Survival of the Fittest Parasite

Image of plant cells with chloroplasts (lilac) expressing the protein huntingtin (green).

Ernesto Llamas smiling as he sits at the lab bench with Arabidopsis plants.

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Greening the Fight Against Huntington&rsquo;s Disease

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Science Crossword Puzzle

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Jacob Hanna developed a method for replicating embryogenesis outside of the uterus to understand the underlying mechanisms.