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Green Lab Initiatives Take Root Around the World

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Plastic Pollution Boosts Bacterial Growth in Lake Water

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Microplastics in Seawater May Harbor Parasites

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Book Excerpt from Thicker Than Water

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Opinion: Plastic Pollution May Endanger Brains

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Labs Worldwide Still Struggling Amid Broken Supply Chains

Baby Bottles Can Shed Millions of Microplastic Particles: Study

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Beetle Larvae Can Survive on Polystyrene Alone

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Image of the Day: Impaired Meiosis

UCL to Phase Out Single-Use Plastics, Including Pipette Tips

Image of the Day: What We’ve Dumped

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Who Will Win the 2026 Nobel Prize? Scientists Make Their Predictions

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Vipers’ Self-Defense Mechanism Could Spark a New Antivenom Strategy

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Was Anthropic’s Biology Breakthrough Borrowed From Another Scientist’s Work?

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Federal Research Grant Awards Fall to a Six-Year Low

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CellRaft AIR: Find the Right Antibody-Producing Cells Faster

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Antarctica’s Blood Falls Teems With Mysterious Microbial Life

Miles away from the closest ocean, marine microbes thrive in the red ice and mud around Blood Falls, offering clues to microbial adaptation and past climate events.

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Characterizing LNP Heterogeneity With Super-Resolution Imaging

Characterizing LNP Heterogeneity With Super-Resolution Imaging

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Exploring the Most Impactful CRISPR Stories

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Oncology Researchers Gain AI Cancer Tools in One Platform

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Beckman Coulter Life Sciences Launches Vi-CELL BLU 2.0 Software to Advance Data Integrity and GMP Readiness in Cell Analysis