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Our Life Science Hero DNA recognize Francis Crick,  Maurice Wilkins, James Watson and Rosalind Franklin for their determination of the structure of DNA.

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Hologic Announces FDA Clearance of Aptima SARS-CoV-2 Assay

On Feb. 18, 2025, Hologic announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for the company’s Aptima® SARS-CoV-2 assay, which was first granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) status in May 2020. The Aptima SARS-CoV-2 Assay…

Scientists Decode Diet From Stool DNA

On Feb. 18, 2025, scientists from the Institute for Systems Biology announced they have developed a breakthrough method to track diet using stool metagenomic data. The new method, called MEDI (Metagenomic Estimation of Dietary Intake), detects food-derived DNA in stool…

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COVID-19 Heroes and Remembrance

Our Heroes and Remembrance illustration has Maurice Ralph Hilleman and John Enders, pioneering developers of common vaccines, and…

It is a Small World

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Explore the invisible life science world around you – science at the nanoscale, one-billionth of a meter or about one ten-thousandth the diameter of a human hair.

We have compiled a wide range of imagery that we hope stimulates your curiosity and interest in the invisible life science world. Current branches of microscopy range from electron, transmission and scanning to ultrafast, low-energy, photoemission, atomic beam and more.

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~ Claude Bernard, French physiologist
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