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Making blood in the lab can be hard because scientists don’t know what triggers a key final step in red blood cell maturation. A new study may change that.

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Infographic: Programmed DNA Elimination

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“Cryptic Transcription”: How Aging Cells Express Fragments of Genes

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How Tadpoles Garner the Energy to Regenerate Their Tails

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Infographic: How Tadpoles Use Glucose to Fuel Tail Regrowth

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How a Bacterium Manages to Reproduce During Famine

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Infographic: Nutrient Scarcity Drives Phase Separation in Bacteria

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Science Snapshot: Mitotic Housekeeping

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Bridging Disciplines to Study CRISPR-Induced Chromosome Destabilization

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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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