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Across the globe, citizen scientists are fueling research efforts—one mystery slime, insect, swab, and sample at a time.

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A New Approach Improves Signal Detection in Mass Cytometry

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DNA Metabarcoding Reveals Hidden Biodiversity

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DNA Barcoding: Species Detection and High Throughput Assays

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Sister Cells Reveal Cancer’s Fate

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A Menagerie on a Leaf

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Scientists ID Dozens of Plants, Animals from Free-Floating DNA

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Tuna Story Exposes Challenges of Seafood Authentication

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Environmental DNA Can Be Pulled from the Air

New Screening Approach Reveals Novel Regulators of Microcephaly

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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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Maximizing Cancer Research Model Systems

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