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An artificial womb allowed scientists to watch human and mouse embryos implant in real time, providing a way to better understand fertility and pregnancy loss.

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Mammalian Oocytes Store mRNA in Newly Found Membraneless Structure

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Science Snapshot: Go Forth and Multiply

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Secret to Reproductive Ants’ Longevity Revealed

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How Immature Egg Cells in Ovaries Resist Aging

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Trees’ Scent Tricks Hornets Into Shuttling Seeds

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Opinion: The Reproductive Technology Advances No One Asked For

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Steroids May Explain Octopuses’ Self-Starvation

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The Mystery of the Mouse Sperm Hook

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Spiders Catapult Themselves to Avoid Becoming Their Mate’s Meal

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Universe 25 Experiment

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What Happens When a Fly Lands on Your Food? 

Red and green small tomatoes. A new genetic engineering approach helped gene-edited plants grow faster.

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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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

Research Roundtable: The Evolving World of Spatial Biology

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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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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

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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Simplifying Early Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis with Blood Testing

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