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Protecting native maize diversity is one of the key arguments behind Mexico’s constitutional ban on genetically modified corn cultivation.

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Opinion: Going Beyond Seed Banks

Genomics Reveals How Humans Can Inadvertently Drive Plant Mimicry

Drug Helps Plants Resist Drought: Study

Gene-Edited Soybean Oil Makes Restaurant Debut

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Companies Use CRISPR to Improve Crops

Opinion: GE Crops Are Seen Through a Warped Lens

Image of the Day: Corn Fed

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Culling Wildlife for the Sake of Research

Long-Term Study Reveals Flip in Plant Responses to Carbon Dioxide

How Manipulating the Plant Microbiome Could Improve Agriculture

Andrea Eveland Teases Apart Gene Networks in Crop Plants

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Universe 25 Experiment

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How Cysteine Depletion Drives Cells to Burn Fat 

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Moss Medicines: The Next Revolution in Biotech?

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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

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The Holy Grail Hunt in De Novo Antibody Design

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July Digest 2025
July 2025, Issue 1

What Causes an Earworm?

Memory-enhancing neural networks may also drive involuntary musical loops in the brain.

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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Explore synthetic DNA’s many applications in cancer research

Weaving the Fabric of Cancer Research with Synthetic DNA

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Enhancing Elution of Plasmid DNA

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Maximizing Lentivirus Recovery

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