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Janet Mertz’s work with simian virus 40 DNA during her graduate years was pivotal for developing DNA recombination as we now know it.

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Glass Menagerie, 1863–1936

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William Harvey Revolutionized Our Understanding of Circulation

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31,000-Year-Old Skeleton Reveals Oldest Known Surgery

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La Botaniste, 1810–1865

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Our Favorite Cell and Molecular Biology Stories of 2021

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Falling Water, Rising Rocks, 1834

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Opinion: What the History of Blood Transfusion Reveals About Risk

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Record-Breaking DNA Sequencing Technology Could Transform Newborn Care

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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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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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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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Simplifying Early Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis with Blood Testing

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