Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yaghi won this year’s Chemistry award for stitching together molecules with immense applications including drug delivery .

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A woman with diabetes checks her blood glucose levels using a wearable biosensor patch on her upper arm, transmitting the results to a smartphone.

Wearable Biosensors and Their Applications

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Glutamate Biosensors Illuminate Talk Between Neurons

Illustration showing how iGluSnFR3, tracks glutamate release at the synapse level. Upon binding to glutamate, the reporter changes its conformation, intensifying the signal of its fluorescent protein.

Infographic: How a Glutamate Sensor Tracks Synapses

Infographic showing how scientists hack the locust brain to identify the unique odor signatures of oral cancers

Infographic: Scents and Sense-Abilities

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Scents and Sense-Abilities: Using Bug Brainpower to Smell Cancer

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Choosing Fluorescent Reagents for Every Live Cell Application

Developing Aptamer Biosensor Technology for Diagnostics and Therapeutics

Expanding the Available Target Range for New Drugs and Diagnostics with Aptamers

CRISPR Biosensors for Disease Diagnostics

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Universe 25 Experiment

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What Happens When a Fly Lands on Your Food? 

Red and green small tomatoes. A new genetic engineering approach helped gene-edited plants grow faster.

Gene-Edited Crops Grow Faster with a Little Help from Bacteria

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Record-Breaking DNA Sequencing Technology Could Transform Newborn Care

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Olga Anczukow and Ryan Englander discuss how transcriptome splicing affects immune system function in lung cancer.

Long-Read RNA Sequencing Reveals a Regulatory Role for Splicing in Immunotherapy Responses

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Research Roundtable: The Evolving World of Spatial Biology

Research Roundtable: The Evolving World of Spatial Biology

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Why Do We Feel Butterflies in the Stomach?

These fluttering sensations are the brain’s reaction to certain emotions, which can be amplified or soothed by the gut’s own “bugs".

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Olga Anczukow and Ryan Englander discuss how transcriptome splicing affects immune system function in lung cancer.

Long-Read RNA Sequencing Reveals a Regulatory Role for Splicing in Immunotherapy Responses

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Research Roundtable: The Evolving World of Spatial Biology

Research Roundtable: The Evolving World of Spatial Biology

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Exploring the State of the Art in Gene Editing Techniques

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Simplifying Early Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis with Blood Testing

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