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A Detailed Look Inside Tsetse Flies

Image - An image from an X-ray microtomography scan of a female tsetse fly’s abdomen. The image was taken from an animation highlighting key aspects of the female reproductive system, including a milk gland used to feed developing larvae. View the animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtC6ASkWcOo&feature=emb_logo. (Credit: Geoffrey Attardo/UC Davis)

How to Find Mutated Sperm? Just Go FISH

An illustration of sperm cells and an egg

The Odd Structure of ORF8: Scientists Map the Coronavirus Protein Linked to Immune Evasion and Disease Severity

Cataloging Nature’s Hidden Arsenal: Viruses that Infect Bacteria

A false-color transmission electron micrograph of multiple bacteriophages attached to a bacterial cell wall

Interpreting the Human Genome’s Instruction Manual

Scaling Up Science During a Global-Scale Emergency

The Wild World of Microbe-Made Products – Skis Now Included

Skier Pep Fujas using WNDR Alpine skis in the Wasatch Range, Utah.

A Game-Changing Test for Prion, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s Diseases is on the Horizon

A digital model of a peptoid, bound to a magnetic bead, attaching on its other end to a prion protein aggregate

Gaming Protein Structures: X-Ray Studies Confirm Power of Crowdsourcing

VIDEO: Particle Accelerators Drive Decades of Discoveries at Berkeley Lab and Beyond

Image - Excellence in Accelerators video title screen

Epic Research Endeavor Reveals Cause of Deadly Digestive Disease in Children

Detection of Percc1 expressing cells (red) amongst the epithelial cells (green) of the intestinal villi in a mouse.

Unique Synthetic Antibodies Show Promise for Improved Disease and Toxin Detection

Schematic of synthetic antibody formed by peptoid-carbon nanotube assemblies. The synthetic antibody can recognize lectin proteins – the target used in this proof-of-concept study – and their conjugate sugars.