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Engineered bacteria turned recycled plastic into paracetamol, a common analgesic, offering a fossil-free route to pharmaceuticals.

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Europa Clipper Searches for Life's Simple Necessities Beyond the Asteroid Belt

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Quantum Dots

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Researchers Make Alternatives to Shark-Sourced Vaccine Ingredient

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SNO-y Protein Levels Help Explain Why More Women Develop Alzheimer’s

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Biocompatible Reactions In Living Cells Garner Chemistry Nobel

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Biogeochemist Kenneth Coale Dies at 67

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What If Scientists Shared Their Reagents for Free?

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Corals and Sea Anemones Turn Sunscreen into Toxins—Understanding How Could Help Save Coral Reefs

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The Right Chemistry, 1935

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Harvard Chemist Found Guilty of Lying About Chinese Funding

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Deep Sea Microbes Produce Graphite-like Carbon

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An Introduction to Enzymes

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How to Troubleshoot pH Meter Electrodes

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Endocrinologist Jean Wilson Dies at 88

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Scientists Go Down the Cicada Hole

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Nobel Laureate Richard Ernst Dies at 87

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Diabetes Testing Pioneer Helen Free Dies at 98

The Community-Wide Effort to Standardize QA/QC for Metabolomics and Lipidomics

Black in X Addresses Long-Standing Inequity in STEM

Water on the Moon Confirmed

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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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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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Enhancing Elution of Plasmid DNA

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Maximizing Lentivirus Recovery

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Explore new strategies for improving plasmid DNA manufacturing workflows.

Overcoming Obstacles in Plasmid DNA Manufacturing

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Unraveling Complex Biology with Advanced Multiomics Technology

Unraveling Complex Biology with Five-Dimensional Multiomics

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