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Peptides have found use in over 80 drugs worldwide since insulin was first synthesized in the 1920s.
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Photo by Егор Камелев on Unsplash
Finding the right taste to send mosquitoes packing could save hundreds of thousands of lives.
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Thiago Japyassu via Unsplash
Yellow fever cases have begun to rise, spilling over the expanding border between the forest and urban areas.
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The health of a woman and her future child may be at risk before she even knows she’s pregnant.
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Rendever.com
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Matt Perko
Kylie Falcione
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Life Science Databases, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.1 Japan
The corpus callosum, in red, connects the two hemispheres of the brain together.
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Teniswood, George Francis, "Polycystic kidney," Barts Health NHS Trust Archives, c1880-1893 CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Watercolor drawing showing two views of a polycystic kidney. One shows the external surface of the kidney, the other when the organ is bisected. Drawing given to the Museum by Dr. Draper Mackinder, MD, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
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UC Santa Barbara materials scientist Omar Saleh
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Radiographic image of breast cancer tumor cells in the mammary ducts.
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Courtesy Marley Dewey
Fibroblasts secreting matrix-bound nanovesicles
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Dorit Hanein
Dorit Hanein’s team and collaborators captured Rac1, a tiny molecular switch, rapidly building and breaking cellular scaffolds, revealing how cells swiftly reshape their skeletons to move and adapt.
