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Secret to Reproductive Ants’ Longevity Revealed

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Genome Spotlight: Edith’s Checkerspot Butterfly (Euphydryas editha)

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The Double Life of a Fungus: Defends Beetle, Attacks Plant

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The Neuroscience Behind Why Mosquitoes Always Find You

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Best Bugs: How E. coli Evolves into a Stinkbug Symbiont

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Science Snapshot: The Need for Speed

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Spilling the Tea: Insect DNA Shows Up in World’s Top Beverage

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Do Crabs Have Feelings? Exploring Emotions in Invertebrates

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Injecting Cockroaches with CRISPR Gene Edits Their Offspring

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How a Forensic Biologist Exposed a DNA Lab Scandal That Shook Australia

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Universe 25 Experiment

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One Gene Influences 75 Percent of Alzheimer’s Disease Cases

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From Data to Discovery: Omics in Therapeutic Innovation

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Exploring Organoids for Disease Modeling Research

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A Stubborn Gene, a Failed Experiment, and a New Path

When experiments refuse to cooperate, you try again and again. For Rafael Najmanovich, the setbacks ultimately pushed him in a new direction.

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