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Blocked Transmission
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Tom Ough
Fomites are inanimate objects that can transfer pathogens. New-age materials and sprays inhibit their spread.
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Scaling Phage Therapy
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Tom Ireland
Cutting-edge biotechnologies and emerging computing technology could finally transform phages into a 21st-century medicine.
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Fast Biology
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Niko McCarty
Living cells are frenzied, crowded places. Numbers help us make sense of it.
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Making the First Transgenic Ants
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Taylor Hart
A researcher writes about her seven year quest to make transgenic ants that express GCaMP, a calcium sensor, in their sensory neurons, thus enabling one to record neural activity as these insects sense pheromones.
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What Science Can Learn from Car Mechanics
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Trevor Klee
Taiichi Ohno, a Japanese engineer who helped to create the Toyota Production System, once described a five-step system to identify the root cause of a problem. That same system should be applied to scientific problems.
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Deliberate Dysentery
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The intentional infection of human beings with pathogens under study has been going on for centuries, but the number of challenge trials almost doubled from the 2000s to the 2010s. What accounts for their popularity?
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Why Synthetic Blood Hasn't Taken Off
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The Plight of Mice
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Xander Balwit