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Zhijian “James” Chen received this year’s Albert Lasker Award for discovering cGAS, an enzyme which scopes out DNA-based threats and alerts the immune system.

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Constipation’s Effect on Scorpion Sex Garners Biology Ig Nobel

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Analysis: Asian Researchers Scarce Among Biomedical Award Winners

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Mechanisms of Chili’s Heat, Menthol’s Cool Garner Nobel

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Optogenetics and mRNA Vaccines Net Lasker Awards

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2021 Ig Nobel Prizes Honor Decongestant Orgasms, Rhino Transport

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2016 Kavli Prize Winners

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A Gut Pathogen’s Unexpected Weapon Against Amyloid Diseases

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Universe 25 Experiment

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The Genes That Shaped Pets and Domesticated Livestock

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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 Five-Dimensional Multiomics

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Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

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