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Stress can accelerate the depletion of pigment-producing cell progenitors, which is a natural aging process. But this may be reversible to a certain extent.

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Bacteria’s Stress Strategy: Slow Down to Avoid the Crowd

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Another Reason to Challenge Yourself at the Gym

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Viruses Keep Mice from Stressing Out

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To Boldly Go Where No Squid Has Gone Before

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How Stress Inflames the Gut

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A Brain MicroRNA Curbs Anxiety

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Stress Increases Biological Age, But Recovery Can Revert It

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Opinion: Stopping the Cancer Cells that Thrive on Chemotherapy

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Climate Change Prematurely Ages Lizards Before They’re Born

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What Happens When a Fly Lands on Your Food? 

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Record-Breaking DNA Sequencing Technology Could Transform Newborn Care

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

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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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