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Two studies tapped into the brain circuitry that allows fruit flies to navigate, offering clues to key principles that may govern navigation in more complex brains.

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

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Fruit Flies Evolve in Time with the Seasons: Study

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Tumors Disrupt the Blood-Brain Barrier at a Distance

Insects Pass Antiviral Immunity to Offspring

Light Enables Long-Term Memory Maintenance in Fruit Flies

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Sex Promotes Lasting Memories in Female Flies

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Sleep Deprivation Hardly Harms Fruit Flies

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Kathy Matthews, Drosophila Geneticist, Dies

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The Alpha-Gal Syndrome Story: How Researchers Traced a Red-Meat Allergy to Ticks

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Fragments of Lyme Disease Bacteria Linked to Liver Dysfunction

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How Cysteine Depletion Drives Cells to Burn Fat 

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Advances in Automated RNA Library Preparation

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Genome Modeling and Design: From the Molecular to Genome Scale

Genome Modeling and Design: From the Molecular to Genome Scale

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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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Genome Modeling and Design: From the Molecular to Genome Scale

Genome Modeling and Design: From the Molecular to Genome Scale

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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

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Multiplexing PCR Technologies for Biopharmaceutical Research

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Producing Tumor-infiltrating Lymphocyte Therapeutics

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