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With a plug-and-play strategy, researchers engineer proteins with new functions.

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Pioneering Geneticist C. Thomas Caskey Dies at 83

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Screen of 250,000 Species Reveals Tweaks to Genetic Code

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Protein Size Matters

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Many Bacteria and Archaea Promoters Work Forward and Backward

DNA’s Coding Power Doubled

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Genes Explain About 11 Percent of Differences in Years of Education

Protozoans Found With No Dedicated Stop Codons

Ciliates Are Genetic-Code Deviants

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Maternal Iron Deficiency Can Trigger Sex Reversal in Mouse Embryos

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Penguins Are Among the World’s Slowest-Evolving Birds: Study

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Why Do Some Runners Get Sick After a Marathon?

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Rare Disease Research Gets a Boost from Automated NGS Solutions

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Best Practices for Freezing Cell Cultures

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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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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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Streamlining Microbial Quality Control Testing

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

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Pioneering Cancer Plasticity Atlas will help Predict Response to Cancer Therapies

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