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The second act of a popular reprogramming factor could maximize the potential of iPSCs in research and regenerative medicine.

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How Intracellular Bacteria Hijack Your Cells

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Infographic: Intracellular Bacteria’s Tricks for Host Manipulation 

Human Pancreas Cells Can Be Made to Produce Insulin

Chinese Scientist Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Rice-Smuggling Plot

Partial Reprogramming Offers a Way to Generate High Volumes of Progenitor-Like Cells

Reprogrammed Glia Improve Symptoms in a Mouse Model of Parkinson’s

Stem Cells Made Waves in Biology and Medicine

Study: Mitotic Cells Can Reprogram Mouse Sperm

With CRISPR, Scientists Make Neurons From Fibroblasts

Programming Pancreatic Cells

Pluripotency Bots

Stem Cell Similarities

Neurons from Glia In Vivo

Chemical Cocktails Produce Neurons

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Leaving an Imprint

2014’s Big Advances in Science

STAP Author Can’t Replicate Results

Reprogramming Redux

New Stem Cell State

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Biomedical Informatician Atul Butte Dies at 55

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A Gut Pathogen’s Unexpected Weapon Against Amyloid Diseases

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Maternal Iron Deficiency Can Trigger Sex Reversal in Mouse Embryos

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Taking Control of Cellular Contamination with PCR Testing

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Electronic Records in Cell Culture Management

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June 2025, Issue 1

Nergal Networks: Where Friendship Meets Infection

A citizen science game explores how social choices and networks can influence how an illness moves through a population.

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Maximizing Lentivirus Recovery

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Unraveling Complex Biology with Advanced Multiomics Technology

Unraveling Complex Biology with Five-Dimensional Multiomics

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Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

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Agilent Unveils the Next Generation in LC-Mass Detection: The InfinityLab Pro iQ Series

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Agilent Announces the Enhanced 8850 Gas Chromatograph

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