The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

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As a young medical student in 1975, I walked into a basement lab at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, ...

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Official descriptions suggest the CH-7 has an ISTAR role, which would allow it to send back data on enemy vessels in the ...

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The 2025 Annual Report from the Basic Sciences Division at Fred Hutch features the divisions reflections for the year, as ...

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In a little over ten years, organoid models—miniature, lab-grown clusters of cells that imitate real organs—have transformed how we study human development and disease while accelerating drug ...