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With a litany of gene therapies and longevity medicine staving off biological death, those paid to write about it must reimagine their craft.
Written and recorded by Xander Balwit.
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A behind-the-scenes interview with Xander Balwit, author of our recent piece entitled, "Eulogy to the Obits."
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Some researchers claim that a Chilean vine can mimic the leaves of a plastic houseplant thanks to a form of primitive vision. But extraordinary claims require equally extraordinary evidence. Written and recorded by Martin Bourdev.
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Why biologists should operate with a sense of urgency. A guest column by Stephen Malina.
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Sebastian Cocioba, a vocal advocate for amateur science, built a home laboratory from spare parts and second-hand machines purchased on eBay.
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While we know how to break organisms down to their constituent parts, even at the atomic level, building them from scratch remains difficult.
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Engineered ants are helping to reveal the neuroscience of pheromone signaling. Written by Taylor Hart.
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Prions are extremely resilient, infectious proteins. Studying their shape-shifting abilities could reveal lessons for how proteins fold at a molecular level, helping scientists design better ones.
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Prions are extremely resilient, infectious proteins. Studying their shape-shifting abilities could reveal lessons for how proteins fold at a molecular level, helping scientists design better ones. Written by Eryney Marrogi and Theodore Sternlieb.
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Cultivarium, a small nonprofit, is building tools to grow and engineer peculiar organisms—and then giving their discoveries away for free.
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Water is the most significant bottleneck in terraforming the Red Planet. An article by Devon Stork.
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A tiny fern has a genome 50 times larger than a human’s. Energy and diffusion—not the nucleus volume—are the key bottlenecks to more expansive growth.
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More than a century after the invention of vaccines, a veterinarian stumbled across a technique to boost their efficacy in an unlikely way — by observing wounded horses. By Kamal Nahas.
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A cautionary tale about the competitive pressures of scientific research, and how they alter the course of history. Written by Metacelsus and recorded by Xander Balwit.
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A behind-the-scenes discussion with Metacelsus, author of "The Nobel Duel," a cautionary tale about the competitive pressures of scientific research and how they alter the course of history.
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Two physical constraints help explain why cells are so tiny: surface area-to-volume ratios and diffusion. This is the first article in our new Data Series.
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Serratia marcescens’ vivid blood-red color has prompted its use in a wide range of experiments that have increased our understanding of how germs disperse within human bodies, buildings, and populations. Sightings of the striking microbe outside the lab have awakened both fear and awe in the general population.
The awareness that certain strains of Serratia marcescens can cause severe harm to humans — counter-intuitively, the paler varieties are most dangerous — only became evident decades after Gordon’s investigations. Before then, hospitals deliberately sprayed Serratia marcescens inside their facilities to investigate microbial dispersion, and laboratory handbooks demonstrated transmission by handshake by having students coat their fingers in the microbe. While greater awareness of its dangers eventually led to its discontinuation in tracing experiments, Serratia marcescens remains an important subject of biomedical research.
Its scientific journey began over 200 years ago with a bloody polenta.
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Serratia marcescens, a pathogen with an uncanny resemblance to blood, has had an outsized influence on modern science. In the latest article from Asimov Press, author Corrado Nai explains how research into this organism has revealed how handshakes transmit disease, how bacteria enter the bloodstream, and how an illness can spread through large cities. Our audio correspondent, Carlos Bricio, interviewed Corrado Nai to learn more.
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A look inside FutureHouse, a nonprofit research institute in San Francisco.
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A nanopore sequencer is a tiny device that can read DNA with high accuracy. Its invention, made possible by merging hardware with machine learning, holds lessons for other measurement tools. By Stephen Malina.
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