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By focusing on twins and patients with lupus and Parkinson’s disease, a Mexican consortium is generating critical data to understand health and disease in the country.

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Unraveling Rare and Inherited Diseases with Genetic Technologies

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The Extra X: How the Sex Chromosome Affects Autoimmunity Risk

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Skin Bacteria May Trigger Lupus: Mouse Study

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Genes that Aided Black Death Survival Linked to Autoimmunity

Erika More developed a jello-like tissue system to study how immune cells stimulate tissues and blood vessel growth.

An Engineer’s Perspective on Autoimmunity

LabTalk Podcast - Predicting the Immune Response with Single-Cell Analysis: Autoimmunity, Vaccination, and COVID-19

The Father of Autoimmunity: A Profile of Noel Rose

Infographic: How NETs Work

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Do Commensal Microbes Stoke the Fire of Autoimmunity?

CAR T Cells Treat Lupus in Mice

$230M for Big Disease

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Universe 25 Experiment

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How Cysteine Depletion Drives Cells to Burn Fat 

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Moss Medicines: The Next Revolution in Biotech?

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Why Can’t We Tickle Ourselves?

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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

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The Holy Grail Hunt in De Novo Antibody Design

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July Digest 2025
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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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Explore synthetic DNA’s many applications in cancer research

Weaving the Fabric of Cancer Research with Synthetic DNA

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Enhancing Elution of Plasmid DNA

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Maximizing Lentivirus Recovery

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Sino Biological Sets New Industry Standard with ProPure Endotoxin-Free Proteins made in the USA

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Introducing the iQue 5 HTS Platform: Empowering Scientists  with Unbeatable Speed and Flexibility for High Throughput Screening by Cytometry

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Vanderbilt Selects Parse Biosciences GigaLab to Generate Atlas of Early Neutralizing Antibodies to Measles, Mumps, and Rubella

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Shift Bioscience proposes improved ranking system for virtual cell models to accelerate gene target discovery