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Can Cancer Be Treated by Changing Its Cells?
Tumors grow when cells lose their biological identity. A promising therapeutic might restore their sense of self.
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Plants Fight for Their Lives
As arable land disappears, a genetic tweak might secure the world’s food supply.
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Why AI Needs a Genome
AI could learn and adapt like humans with algorithms that work like genes.
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Triggering the Body’s Defenses to Fight Cancer
Experiments once considered crazy are now helping scientists attack tumors.
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The Rise of RNA Therapeutics
DNA mutations are hard to fix. Scientists are trying another approach.
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How to Outwit Evolution
We can defeat superbugs by staying one step ahead of them.
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The Cancer Custodians
To beat our worst enemy, we must first let it grow.
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Data Crunchers to the Rescue
Genetic diseases that puzzle lab scientists are being solved by quantitative biologists.
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The Doctor Will Sniff You Now
Step aside, Dr. House, Deep Nose will one day be the best diagnostician in medicine.
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How to Bury Carbon? Let Plants Do the Dirty Work
Carbon sequestration could slow or reverse human emissions—and nothing is better at sequestration than a green plant.
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How Does Anyone Stay Healthy in a World Full of Germs?
Computational biology is uncovering the immune system’s tricks for identifying foreign invaders.
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New Veggies for a Warming Planet
We need a diversity of crops to adapt to Earth’s changing climate.
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Why We’re a Lot Better at Fighting Cancer Than We Realized
Using data-mining techniques, doctors have discovered dozens of anti-tumor drugs hiding in plain sight.
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The Environmental Headache in Your Shampoo
Palm oil is an environmental scourge. Plant biology has a solution.
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How We Learned to Love Neanderthals…and a Lot of Other Hominids, Too
Genetic analysis reveals a complex tale of migrations and cross-species trysts in our human past
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Pursuing COVID-19 at Internet Speed
As scientists grapple with the global pandemic, preprint servers let information be free—and fast
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We Are Nowhere Close to the Limits of Athletic Performance
Genetic engineering will bring us new Bolts and Shaqs.