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Atomic-Scale Protein Filters
How aquaporin and potassium channels filter hundreds of millions of water molecules or ions each second, by positioning the correct amino acid in the…
Oct 15
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Niko McCarty
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A Liver on Ice
How a liver goes from a brain-dead donor to a living recipient.
Oct 12
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Our Next Book: Making the Modern Laboratory
And how you can help write it.
Oct 8
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A Shift from Animal Testing
There has been a push toward animal-free alternatives in scientific research. But the success of such alternatives hinges upon whether and where they…
Oct 6
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Celia Ford
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Seeing Microbes from the Sky
Biotechnology needs more and better transducers.
Oct 1
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Niko McCarty
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September 2025
The World’s Most Common Surgery
In 4,000 years, cataract surgery went from a crude procedure involving thorn instruments to a 20-minute operation with a 95 percent clinical success…
Sep 29
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AI-Designed Phages
A new paper shows that a generative AI model can design viable bacteriophages.
Sep 17
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Niko McCarty
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August 2025
What We Find in the Sewers
Our ancestors once spread their excess effluent on their fields; now we mine it for vital molecules.
Aug 25
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Calum Drysdale
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Pausing Insect Activity
Seasonal dormancy features in the life cycle of many insects. We can harness it for biological control, insect farming, and disease vector management at…
Aug 21
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Ulkar Aghayeva
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The Weight of a Cell
A single E. coli bacterium weighs about one picogram, 60 million times less than a grain of sand. But how do we know?
Aug 18
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Niko McCarty
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Leeches and the Legitimizing of Folk-Medicine
While we’ve derived useful molecules from the leech, live leech therapy has been largely marginalized in the West. It is time we reevaluate why.
Aug 14
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Alexandra Balwit
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Wings Over The World
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The Flower Designer
A plant biologist’s quest to design and create 1,000 unique flowers, mostly in his spare time.
Aug 11
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Niko McCarty
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