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A team proposes that the addition of a small accessory subunit to the carbon-fixing enzyme was key to improving its catalytic properties and specificity to CO2.

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Longer Days Led to Oxygen Buildup on Early Earth: Study

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890-Million-Year-Old Fossils Are Sponges, Oldest Animals: Study

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Lightning Might Have Sparked Early Life on Earth

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Newly Named Chibanian Age Demarcates Earth’s Last Magnetic Flip

Microbe Miner: A Profile of Rob Knight

Fossilized Tubes Point to Super-Ancient Mobile Organisms

Life Thrives Within the Earth’s Crust

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Oldest Evidence of Terrestrial Life on a Young Earth

Rivers and Streams Compose Much More of Earth's Surface Than Thought

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Record-Breaking DNA Sequencing Technology Could Transform Newborn Care

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Universe 25 Experiment

The World's Densest Bones

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Why Do We Feel Butterflies in the Stomach?

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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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November 2025, Issue 1

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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