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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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New NAS Awards Honor Science Communication in “Post-Truth World”

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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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New HHMI Investigator Cohort Announced

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2021 Ig Nobel Prizes Honor Decongestant Orgasms, Rhino Transport

Women Who Win Science Prizes Earn Less Money, Prestige than Men

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Lasker Awards Recognize Work on Histones, Anesthesia, RNA

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How a Forensic Biologist Exposed a DNA Lab Scandal That Shook Australia

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Universe 25 Experiment

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One Gene Influences 75 Percent of Alzheimer’s Disease Cases

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Postdoc Portrait: Rohita Roy

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From Data to Discovery: Omics in Therapeutic Innovation

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Exploring Organoids for Disease Modeling Research

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A Stubborn Gene, a Failed Experiment, and a New Path

When experiments refuse to cooperate, you try again and again. For Rafael Najmanovich, the setbacks ultimately pushed him in a new direction.

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