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Stem cells in regenerating planarians don’t need their closest neighbors, overturning researchers’ understanding of the worms’ regenerative superpowers.

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How Cells Know Where to Grow After Injury

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Low Intracellular Iron Levels May Keep Blood Stem Cells Young

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Vesicles from Young Mice Alleviate Signs of Aging in Older Animals

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Stem Cells in Human Teeth Follow the Rules of Their Environment

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What Happens When a Fly Lands on Your Food? 

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Gene-Edited Crops Grow Faster with a Little Help from Bacteria

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Record-Breaking DNA Sequencing Technology Could Transform Newborn Care

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Best Practices for Precise Pipetting

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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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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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Golden geometric pattern on a blue background, symbolizing the precision, consistency, and technique essential to effective pipetting.

Best Practices for Precise Pipetting

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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

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Exploring the State of the Art in Gene Editing Techniques

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