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A happenstance collaboration between biologists and roboticists led to the birth of a strange creation: living machines derived from frog stem cells.

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Glowing Amphibians Extremely Common

Image of the Day: Brainless Frogs

Image of the Day: Scrambled Frog Eggs

Image of the Day: Floating Frog

Frog-Killing Chytrid Fungus Far Deadlier than Scientists Realized

Image of the Day: New Tiny Frog

Origin of Frog-Killing Chytrid Fungus Found

Studies Show How Cells Differentiate at Life’s Beginning

Frogs Fight Back From Fungal Attack

Tadpoles Keep Eating Because They Don’t Feel Full

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Image of the Day: Frog Leaps Away from Extinction 

Frog Skin Yields Potent Painkillers, but None Clinic Ready

Image of the Day: Tadpole Prism

How Poison Frogs Avoid Poisoning Themselves

Image of the Day: Save the Frogs

Image of the Day: Heart On Your Sleeve

Image of the Day: Night Crawler

Image of the Day: Pocket Frogs

Image of the Day: A Sticky Situation

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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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Maximizing Lentivirus Recovery

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Unraveling Complex Biology with Advanced Multiomics Technology

Unraveling Complex Biology with Five-Dimensional Multiomics

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Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

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Waters Enhances Alliance iS HPLC System Software, Setting a New Standard for End-to-End Traceability and Data Integrity 

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Agilent Unveils the Next Generation in LC-Mass Detection: The InfinityLab Pro iQ Series

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Agilent Announces the Enhanced 8850 Gas Chromatograph

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