An electron microscope image of a sponge used for lentivirus transduction.

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A Sponge Can Simplify Lentivirus Transduction

Sponge pores can mimic microfluidics, placing cells and virus particles in close proximity to increase transduction efficiency.

Microscopy image of a hair follicle shaft with clusters of orange debris surrounded by a group of green cells. Purple cells surround the hair root.

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Stem Cells Dine on Dying Neighbors to Keep Tissues Fit

Image of colored blobs comprised of individual dots. Each dot represents an immune cell and dots of the same color belong to the same cell type.

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Charting the Human Immune Health Atlas

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Immunofluorescence image of a cross-section of a term placenta showing STB and CTB labeled pink and surrounding nuclei and nuclear speckles labeled blue and green, respectively.

A Tissue-Sized Cell with Billions of Nuclei

Danielle Gerhard, PhD | | 2 min read

A cross section of the pistil of <em >Arabidopsis thaliana </em>plant. Pollen grains are labeled with fluorescent markers and sit at the top of the structure. Fluorescently tagged pollen tubes penetrate the plant’s ovary where the ovules (small, curved structures) are located.

The Hidden Dance of Plant Fertilization

Mariella Bodemeier Loayza Careaga, PhD | | 2 min read

Image of aggregated anthrobots (green) forming a bridge between two neuronal cells (red).

Building Living Bridges with Anthrobots

Laura Tran, PhD | | 2 min read

Neurons in culture

Lighting Up the Neuronal Cytoskeleton

Mariella Bodemeier Loayza Careaga, PhD | | 2 min read

Larger green cell with two cyan spots and many smaller magenta circles in and around the cell.

Synthetic Systems for Studying Natural Cells

Danielle Gerhard, PhD | | 2 min read

An antenna-like cellular structure emerges from the surface of a human pancreatic islet cell. The surface of the cell is covered with small structures called microvilli.

The Shape of Cilia

Mariella Bodemeier Loayza Careaga, PhD | | 2 min read

Image of a brain section with various colors to denote different cell types (left) and different brain regions (right).

A Cell-by-Cell Map of the Entire Mouse Brain

Laura Tran, PhD | | 2 min read

Fluorescent microscopy image of an embryo model representing four tissue layers of this developmental stage. Cyan-labeled cells are clustered at the top of an ovoid structure, underneath them are yellow-labeled cells and under them red-labeled cells, and surrounding all three layers are white labeled cells.

The First Human Embryo Model From Embryonic Stem Cells

Shelby Bradford, PhD | | 2 min read

The mouse peripheral nervous system with nerve cells farther away from the camera represented in yellow and pink, while nerves closer to the camera are shown in blue tones.

A Glowing Mouse Map

Mariella Bodemeier Loayza Careaga, PhD | | 2 min read

Image of pancreatic organoids under a microscope with immunofluorescent staining

Pancreatic Organoids Take the Stage

Laura Tran, PhD | | 2 min read

Fluorescently labeled neuron cell bodies in blue in the center compartment of a three-compartment microfluidic chamber grow through tiny grooves to enter the left and the right chambers, where they extend axons fibers, also shown in blue.

Visualizing Axon Pruning

Tiffany Garbutt, PhD | | 2 min read

This is DishBrain, an in vitro system that combines human brain cells with artificial intelligence technology, which researchers at Australian biotech Cortical Labs recently trained to play the classic 1972 Atari video game Pong. Fluorescent markers show axons in green, neuron bodies in purple, dendrites in red, and all other cells in blue. Where multiple markers are present, colors are merged and typically appear as yellow or pink. Posted: October 12, 2022

Caught on Camera

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An international team of scientists used sensitive instruments to show that oil from human skin reacts with ozone to generate potent, free radicals. These chemicals can further react with most organic compounds present in the indoor environment to produce dangerous pollutants.

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This young crustacean (Idotea balthica) carries the stained spermatia (blue) of the red algae Gracilaria gracilis on its body, marking the first known example of an animal facilitating fertilization in this ancient photosynthetic lineage.

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Artist’s rendition of <em>Meraxes gigas</em>’s head

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orange tiny frog

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A female juvenile vaquitas, photographed in 2017.

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Trichaptum abietinum growing on a pine log

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zebrafish (Danio rerio)

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A close-up of the eyespot on the wing of a forest mother-of-pearl butterfly (Protogoniomorpha parhassus)

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Fragments of Lyme Disease Bacteria Linked to Liver Dysfunction

Cell wall components from Borrelia burgdorferi lingered in the mouse liver for weeks, suggesting new therapeutic avenues for this chronic disease.

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How Cysteine Depletion Drives Cells to Burn Fat

Absence of cysteine in mice coaxed fat-storing cells to burn energy, causing weight loss and offering potential therapeutic targets to improve metabolic health.

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Universe 25 Experiment

A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and water, personal space is essential to prevent societal collapse, but Universe 25's relevance to humans remains disputed.

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Advances in Automated RNA Library Preparation

Whole transcriptome sequencing RNA library preparation gets a boost from the latest automated liquid handling technology.

Accelerating Recombinase Reprogramming with Machine Learning

Accelerating Recombinase Reprogramming with Machine Learning

In this webinar, Felix Lansing will discuss how AI-driven models improve recombinase development.

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Genome Modeling and Design: From the Molecular to Genome Scale

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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

In this webinar, learn how scientists use advanced human brain models to uncover treatment strategies for complex neurological conditions.

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