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From genetically modified mosquitoes to clinical therapies, learn how scientists apply gene editing techniques to answer a range of important research questions.
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Infographic showing the breeding schematic to generate Cre-loxP tissue-specific knockout mice.

Infographic: The Cre-lox System Explained

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Reversing Hearing Loss

Julie Trolle and Jef Boeke

Self Sufficient Cells?

an&nbsp;<em>Aedes aegypti&nbsp;</em>mosquito, black with white dots and stripes on its joints and body, sitting on a person&#39;s skin and feeding.&nbsp;

Smelly Skin Compounds Draw Mosquitoes to Some People More than Others

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Katharina Höfer Probes the Machinery of Bacterial Gene Expression

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Man Receives Transplanted Heart from Genetically Modified Pig

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Surgeons Successfully Transplant a Pig Kidney into a Person

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Identical Twins Carry Distinctive Epigenetic Marks: Study

An Oxitec mosquito release box from the Florida Keys Friendly Mosquito Project

First US Field Test of GM Mosquitoes Begins in Florida

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Universe 25 Experiment

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What Happens When a Fly Lands on Your Food? 

A brown dog stares at a spoon of peanut butter in front of its face with wide eyes.

Why Do Dogs Love Peanut Butter?

A woman pulls on her dark hair, showing graying roots. She looks frustrated, representing how stress can cause hair to go gray prematurely.

How Does Stress Cause Gray Hair?

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A Comprehensive Guide to Next-Generation Sequencing

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Best Practices for Precise Pipetting

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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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An image of a DNA sequencing spectrum with a radial blur filter applied.

A Comprehensive Guide to Next-Generation Sequencing

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Golden geometric pattern on a blue background, symbolizing the precision, consistency, and technique essential to effective pipetting.

Best Practices for Precise Pipetting

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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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LabVantage Solutions Awarded $22.3 Million U.S Customs and Border Protection Contract to Deliver Next-Generation Forensic LIMS

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Evosep Unveils Open Innovation Initiative to Expand Standardization in Proteomics

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OGT expands MRD detection capabilities with new SureSeq Myeloid MRD Plus NGS Panel