Interview

A black robot hand holding a red, mesh-like model of a heart.

Building Bioartificial Hearts, One Beat at a Time

Kevin Tran, a graduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and codeveloper of CraftCells, wears a virtual reality headset. He’s standing in front of a screen projecting his view of the CraftCells Minecraft world.

CraftCells: 3D Cell Biology Reaches Broad Audiences with Minecraft

Dusky slug (Arion subfuscus) sitting on a torch lily flower

Finding Bio-inspiration in Slug-Made Hydrogels

A photo of a female grizzly bear and her cubs.

Bear Necessities: Insights from Grizzly Bears

An image of the tardigrade species Hypsibius exemplaris stained with fluorescent dyes. This tardigrade was stained with LysoTracker Green (cyan), TMRE (magenta), and NucBlue (green). Scale bar: 20μm

Getting Creative with an Extreme Animal Model

A microscopy image of a retinal organoid graft months after transplantation into the eye of a rat with retinal degeneration. This microscopy image, taken with a Zeiss LSM900 confocal microscope, shows the photoreceptors of the graft organized in rosettes, with their outer segments staining red for rhodopsin and the transplant’s nuclei labeled with a green Ku80 stain. Additionally, DAPI stain (blue) marks both rat and human nuclei.

A Vision of the Future: Restoring Eyesight via Transplantation

A merged brightfield and GFP fluorescence image showing human cells in rats after engraftment

Patching Up Damaged Guts with Healing Cells

Microscopy image of a 120-day old human skin organoid derived from pluripotent stem cells with tentacle-like hair follicles. The green Keratin 5 stain labels the outer layer of the follicles and the epidermis, while the red PMEL stain marks the melanocytes.

Tracking Tissue Development to Inspire Regenerative Therapies

Illustration of a scientist (right) demonstrating to an actor (left, in a white lab coat) how to pipette and explaining something (depicted by a virus and strand of DNA in a text bubble). Behind them is a movie set created to look like a laboratory, with stage lighting above and a film camera pointed at the set from the left side and straight ahead from a camera in the foreground. A director sits in a chair facing the set at the bottom left of the image.

The Guardians of Science in Sci-Fi Movies

Two people sit across from each other at a desk looking at a computer monitor with a simple data figure. The farther person thinks about multiple more complicated data sets.

Unearthing Stories from the Data Ecosystem

A woman lying on a couch holding a hot water bottle against her lower stomach.

Zeroing In on the Causes of Endometriosis

Brightfield microscopy image of Aspergillus fumigatus.

The Silent Pandemic of Antifungal Resistance

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An old medical illustration features the ear in the center with nerves of the head shown in yellow.

The Ear as a Therapeutic Gateway to the Vagus Nerve

Photo of John Calhoun crouches within his rodent utopia-turned-dystopia

Universe 25 Experiment

3D illustration showing three differently colored semi-translucent cells, representing different T cell subtypes, on a black background. A purple cell is in the front on the right, a red cell is on the left, and a blue cell sits behind the red one.

T Cell Nomenclature Gets an Update

A yellow-colored frozen frog.

Freeze-Tolerant Frogs Power Organ Cryopreservation Strategies

Multimedia

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Skip the Wait for Protein Stability Data with Aunty

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Thermo Scientific X and S Series General Purpose Centrifuges

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January 2026, Issue 1

What Is the Amniotic Fluid Composed of?

The liquid world of fetal development provides a rich source of nutrition and protection tailored to meet the needs of the growing fetus.

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An Automated DNA-to-Data Framework for Production-Scale Sequencing

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Exploring Cellular Organization with Spatial Proteomics

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Organoid Origins and How to Grow Them

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