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Burn specialist surgeon Fiona Wood wanted to improve the process of skin grafting. Instead, she developed a completely new method to treat burns.

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Bladder ‘Memory’ Influences Urinary Tract Infection Recurrence in Mice

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Garbage to Guts: The Slow-Churn of Plastic Waste

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Sweet Taste Receptors Regulate Proteins in Developing Fruit Flies

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In Love with the Shape of You: Physical Scaffolding Defines Organoid Patterning

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Move Over Apoptosis: Another Form of Cell Death May Occur in the Gut

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DNA Methylation Could Predict Ovarian, Breast Cancers

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Epithelial Cell Signaling Helps Maintain Tissue Integrity

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Human Protein Dissolves Bacterial Membranes

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Mysterious Immune Cells Change the Gut Lining to Accommodate Diet

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Prolonged GLP-1 Exposure Remodels Gene Expression in the Pancreas by Flipping a Molecular Switch

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Student Admits She Did Not Conduct Experiments in Now-Retracted Paper

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Cockroach Milk Proteins Churn Out an Ig Nobel Win

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