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Josephine Thinwa shares her journey to becoming a physician scientist and how this led her to investigate the role of a neurologically important kinase in virus-induced autophagy.

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Macrophages Curtail Tuberculosis

Programmed Cell Death: Mechanisms for Cellular Self-Destruction

Programmed Cell Death Pathways

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Chantell Evans Tracks Mitochondrial Cleanup in Neurons

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Sweet Taste Receptors Regulate Proteins in Developing Fruit Flies

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Protein-Recycling Process Protective Against Arterial Plaques

Autophagy and Mitophagy in Neurodegeneration: A Deep Dive

Autophagy and Mitophagy in Neurodegeneration: A Deep Dive

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Move Over Apoptosis: Another Form of Cell Death May Occur in the Gut

Discover how to scale up cellular assays during drug discovery

High-Throughput Solutions for Lead Candidate Discovery

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Infographic: Modeling Neurodegenerative Diseases with Yeast

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Yeast Models Provide New Insights into Neurodegenerative Diseases

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Humans Can Survive Without Key Autophagy Gene

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Computational Biologist Bing Liu Dies in Suspected Murder

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The Scientist’s Most Stunning Infographics of 2018

Image of the Day: Pseudomonas Autophagy

Eat Yourself to Live: Autophagy’s Role in Health and Disease

Image of the Day: When Cells Stop Cleaning

Vlad Denic on Exploring New Fields and Failing Successfully

Autophagy Pioneer Wins Nobel

Cocaine Induces Neuronal Autophagy

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Biomedical Informatician Atul Butte Dies at 55

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A Gut Pathogen’s Unexpected Weapon Against Amyloid Diseases

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Maternal Iron Deficiency Can Trigger Sex Reversal in Mouse Embryos

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Taking Control of Cellular Contamination with PCR Testing

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Electronic Records in Cell Culture Management

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June 2025, Issue 1

Nergal Networks: Where Friendship Meets Infection

A citizen science game explores how social choices and networks can influence how an illness moves through a population.

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Maximizing Lentivirus Recovery

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Unraveling Complex Biology with Advanced Multiomics Technology

Unraveling Complex Biology with Five-Dimensional Multiomics

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Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

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Agilent Announces the Enhanced 8850 Gas Chromatograph

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