An abstract illustration of a tooth on a bluish background, signifying teeth that are a source of multipotent dental stem cells that can have therapeutic applications in dental diseases and beyond.

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Stem cells in the teeth and gums are multipotent and easily accessible. Scientists are researching ways to harness their power for therapies beyond dentistry.

Dental Stem Cells Regenerate More Than Just Smiles

The liquid world of fetal development provides a rich source of nutrition and protection tailored to meet the needs of the growing fetus. 

Illustration of a developing fetus surrounded by a clear fluid with a subtle yellow tinge, representing amniotic fluid.

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What Is the Amniotic Fluid Composed of? 

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Wooden Neurons: An Artistic Vision of the Brain

Image of a wooden sculpture of a Purkinje cell.

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Image of a wooden sculpture comprised of multiple wooden neurons that form a bear.

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Science Snapshot

Photo of Martina Mascioni (left) and Allison Cusic (right) working in their graduate research lab at the University of California, San Diego. Both are wearing white lab coats and holding pipettes. 

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Grayscale microscopic image of a cluster of three phytoplankton. They are shaped like long chili peppers and have bumpy exteriors like a raspberry. 

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Nine people wearing red coats sit in a small inflatable boat on the ocean in front of an Antarctic Fjord. These are guests joining in the citizen science project FjordPhyto to collect water samples to study phytoplankton.

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Photo of Martina Mascioni (left) and Allison Cusick (right) working in their graduate research lab at the University of California, San Diego. Both are wearing white lab coats and holding pipettes. 

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Polar Tourists Collect Phytoplankton to Help Researchers Study Fjord Ecology

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Image of different mushrooms spread out on top of green foliage.

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Image of Tarun Nayar sitting on the ground with a modular synthesizer in his lab. There are mushrooms in the foreground.

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Mushroom Music: Tuning into Nature&rsquo;s Bioelectric Rhythms

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CLARIOstar Plus Matrix Scan of an entire microplate well, monitoring cellular regrowth after a scratch wound across a 900 data point matrix.

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Pixel art conceptual depiction of a scratch assay

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Accelerating Scratch Assays with Real-Time Monitoring

Photograph of the bottom half of a man’s face while he sings into a microphone. 

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Visualization of the structure of the vocal tracts of a metal singer as they produce either a typical “ooh” sound (top) or six different extreme vocal screams. The clean image shows a static MRI and illustration and spectrogram of the arrow and distance from the glottis. Each of the extreme vocal phonations shows this along with a 3D reconstruction of the vocal tract space to help see the various constriction and expansion that occurs to produce the screams.  

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Three sets of data, representing a “Growl” vocalization (left), “clean” phonation (center), and “Guttural” type of scream (right). Each sound type includes a laryngoscopy (left), static MRI (right), and spectrogram (bottom). In the growl and guttural vocalization, the larynx is obstructed from view by the epiglottis

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Metal Vocalists Scream for Science

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It&rsquo;s Cell-ebration Time

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Rakesh Tiwari, a postdoctoral fellow and plant physiologist at Uppsala University, collects photorespiration measurements from plants in the Western Ghats Forest.

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Photograph of Rakesh Tiwari using an instrument to measure plant growth in a biosafety cabinet. Tiwari is wearing a brown fleece and has dark hair and a beard. A green sapling is in a planter behind him in the cabinet. 

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Trees Release Carbon Dioxide to Tolerate Rising Temperatures

Jessica Bernard, a cognitive neuroscientist, wears a white top and jeans while sitting on an orange couch with neuroscience-inspired art on the wall behind her.

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Photo of Giles Martin wearing glasses and a white and lavender checkered shirt. 

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Shirley Jiang has long, dark hair and is wearing a white shirt and black jacket, smiling at the camera.

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Andrew Shepherd, a neuroimmunologist, wears a dark suit against a grey background.

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Holden Maecker, a cellular immunologist, wears a blue suit and a checkered shirt.

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Image of postdoctoral researcher Travis Lee. He smiles at the camera and is wearing a dark blue button up shirt.

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An immunofluorescence image of skin fibroblasts colored in green, red, and blue is shown.

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What&rsquo;s the Best Cell? Scientists Choose Their Favorites

A neurobiologist, who loves the morphology of cells, turns these shapes into works of art made from wood.

December digest cover image of a wooden sculpture comprised of multiple wooden neurons that form a seahorse.

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Image of a wooden sculpture comprised of multiple wooden neurons that form a seahorse.

Wooden Neurons: An Artistic Vision of the Brain

A neurobiologist, who loves the morphology of cells, turns these shapes into works of art made from wood.

Wooden Neurons: An Artistic Vision of the Brain

Polar Tourists Collect Phytoplankton to Help Researchers Study Fjord Ecology

Mushroom Music: Tuning into Nature’s Bioelectric Rhythms

Accelerating Scratch Assays with Real-Time Monitoring

Metal Vocalists Scream for Science

It’s Cell-ebration Time

Trees Release Carbon Dioxide to Tolerate Rising Temperatures

What’s the Best Cell? Scientists Choose Their Favorites