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The Constellation of Creatures Inhabiting the Ocean Surface

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Slideshow: Meet the Neuston, the Diverse Organisms Living at the Ocean’s Surface

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Infographic: Neuston Drift Atop the World’s Oceans

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<em>Chlamydia</em> invades a host cell, forms a membrane-bound vacuole, or inclusion, and then modifies the protein composition of the structure’s membrane. If immune cells detect <em>Chlamydia</em> before it forms the inclusion, they trigger T cells to produce interferon-γ (IFN-γ), a powerful cytokine. IFN-γ activates the protein mysterin (also called RFN213), which attaches ubiquitin to the inclusion membrane, signaling the cell to destroy the inclusion’s contents by dumping them into a lysosome (left). C. trachomatis produces GarD, a protein that integrates into the inclusion membrane itself and somehow prevents mysterin from attaching ubiquitin, allowing the bacterium to evade immune destruction while continuing to multiply and eventually bursting from the cell (right).

Infographic: How Chlamydia Evades Immune Detection

Natalia Mesa, PhD | | 2 min read

Magenta (DNA) and green (lysosome) fluorescent markers indicate that cells eject waste products from the cell before late mitosis.

Science Snapshot: Mitotic Housekeeping

Lisa Winter | | 1 min read

Infographic showing endogenous adenosine enzymes acting on RNA (ADARs) edit genetic material in the cell by attaching to naturally occurring double-stranded RNAs, including mRNAs, and switching out A bases with I bases (left). Therapeutic RNA editing platforms based on this mechanism fall into one of two categories: either they use engineered enzymes, which generally consist of the editing part of the ADAR enzyme attached to another protein such as Cas13 that boosts specificity, alongside a guide RNA that targets the enzyme to the desired location (middle); or they consist of a guide RNA alone, which recruits an endogenous ADAR to edit the target sequence (right).

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Christie Wilcox, PhD | | 1 min read

Infographic: How Pregnancy Changes Fat Tissue

Catherine Offord | | 1 min read

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Australian Beetles Walk on the Underside of Water’s Surface

Lisa Winter | | 1 min read

Infographic: How Scientists Are Creating Coral Cell Lines

Amanda Heidt | | 1 min read

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Emily CoxandHenry Rathvon | | 10+ min read

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Book Club Discussion of Brandon Taylor’s Real Life

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Ruth Williams | | 1 min read

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Drosophila: To Infinity and Beyond

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Infographic: Envisioning Macrophages

Ashley Yeager | | 1 min read

Certain Color Varieties of a Coral Are More Protected from Bleaching

Lisa Winter | | 2 min read

Thousands of Sea Turtles Immobilized by Brutal Texas Winter Storm

Lisa Winter | | 1 min read

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Watch a Trained Pup Detect Prostate Cancer From a Urine Sample

Asher Jones | | 1 min read

See Pigs Master a Joystick Video Game

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Conch Horn Finds Its Song Again After 17,000 Years

Lisa Winter | | 1 min read

Coral Restorers

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