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TS Digest Issues

Past TS Digest Issues

August 2024 TS Digest cover

August 2024, Issue 2

Mold Burger: Coming Right Up

From the laboratory to the table, researchers cooked bioengineered fungi into a tempting patty.

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August 2024, Issue 1

From Lab to Likes: Socializing Science Through Humor

Oded Rechavi shares research and relatable science memes at the touch of his fingertips.

Illustration of cells either being sorted into tubes from a cell sorter or going into a waste container from a flow cytometer.

July 2024, Issue 2

What's the Difference Between Flow Cytometry and FACS?

Flow-based methods allow researchers to collect multiparameter data from individual cells in their samples, but the fate of samples depends on the instrument.

On the left, a diagram of a fetus and placenta inside the abdomen of a pregnant person, on the right, a pink mitochondrion.

July 2024, Issue 1

Mitochondria: The Powerhouse of the Placenta

Scientists seek citizens’ help to survey placental mitochondria in complicated and healthy pregnancies.

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June 2024

Mining Antimicrobials in the Nose

A new antimicrobial isolated from commensal bacteria may help keep their competitors in the nasal microbiota at bay.

May 2024 Digest cover

May 2024

The Shape of Cilia

Three dimensional images of human pancreatic islet cells provide an unprecedented view of the enigmatic primary cilia.

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April 2024

A Space Sequence Saga

Astronaut Kathleen Rubins and her samples do not settle when it comes to space biology.

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March 2024

The First Human Embryo Model from Embryonic Stem Cells

Jacob Hanna developed a method for replicating embryogenesis outside of the uterus to understand the underlying mechanisms.

February Digest 2024

February 2024

A Glowing Mouse Map

A new staining method enabled cellular resolution at the organism level.

A blue immune cell with a red halo sits in the middle of a yellow spill from a tipping beer mug to the right. Blue bacteria surround the cell.

January 2024

Alcohol Leaves its Mark on Immune Cells

The immune system’s recovery from chronic alcohol use could take longer than some rehabilitation periods due to alcohol’s effects on stem cells.

A scientist not in the frame is holding a plant leave with forceps in one hand and a petri dish with more leaves in the other.

December 2023

Mean, Green, Antibody-producing Machines

A plant-based monoclonal antibody goes head-to-head with its commercial counterpart to target tumors in mice.

Orange bacteria on a green and orange background.

November 2023

Bacterial Time Capsules

Historical samples of bloodstream infections hold secrets to Escherichia coli’s evolutionary history and the emergence of virulent clones.

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October 2023

Designer Peptoids Pop Viral Membranes

Bioinspired small molecules combat viral threats by targeting a common feature in enveloped viruses, making them useful against a wide range of viruses.

September 2023 TS Digest cover

September 2023

Fishing for Viruses

A novel technology enables rapid detection of multiple viruses from patient samples.

August 2023 Digst cover

August 2023

The Roles of Endogenous Psychedelics

Researchers begin to understand the mind-blowing science of psychedelics.

A male tsetse fly smells a tsetse fly pheromone

July 2023

Elusive Tsetse Pheromones

Researchers discovered novel attractants that may improve Tsetse fly traps and help control disease spread.

May 2023 Digest cover

May 2023

"Silent" Mutations Make Noise in Cancer

Synonymous mutations have been overlooked, but research reveals that they can drive cancer

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April 2023

Cheating Centromeres

Investigating nonrandom segregation to better understand how speciation occurs

February 2023 Digest Cover

February 2023

Salmon Wars

How should a species’ DNA be used to guide its conservation?

January 2023 Digest Cover

January 2023

Life on the Ocean Surface

The myriad species floating atop the world’s seas are complicating efforts to clean up plastic pollution

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