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How Big Is Pharma’s Carbon Footprint? Highlights From My Green Lab’s 2025 Impact Report

Biotech and pharma greenhouse gas emissions are falling – but is current progress fast enough? Discover My Green Lab’s Impact Report.
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Noninvasive Imaging Could Spare Diabetes Patients From Daily Finger Pricks

A new non-invasive glucose monitor utilizes Raman spectroscopy, offering pain-free diabetes management solutions for patients.
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How Flu Viruses Slip Past Cellular Defences

A new imaging approach combining AFM and fluorescence microscopy allowed researchers to observe influenza entry at high resolution. They discovered that cells recruit clathrin and reshape their membrane to capture viruses.
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Zapping Stem Cells Could Boost Growth of New Tissues and Organs

Scientists have discovered how tiny electrical pulses can steer stem cells as they grow, opening the door to improved ways of creating new tissues, organs, nerves and bones.
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New Test Distinguishes Vaccine-Induced False Positives From Active HIV Infection

Vaccine-induced false positives are a major roadblock in the development of an HIV vaccine, according to a research team at Penn State. The researchers developed a test that can differentiate between false positives and active HIV infections.
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Forever Chemical Isomers Are Unevenly Distributed Across Food Webs

Research shows that PFOS isomers in fish vary greatly, emphasizing the need for differentiated regulation of these harmful substances.
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Cryo-EM Reveals How Epilepsy Drugs Engage Neuronal Protein SV2A

Using cryo-electron microscopy, researchers have visualized how widely used epilepsy drugs bind and reshape the neuronal protein SV2A, uncovering an additional binding site that could enable more potent and precise therapies.
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Dynamic Behavior of Unstable Protein Revealed

Explore how the YB1 protein's intrinsic disorder helps it perform crucial cellular functions, impacting cancer therapies.
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Tiny Bullet Fragments in Hunted Meat Pose Lead Poisoning Risk

Fragments of lead left behind in hunted meat are far tinier than previously shown and – more alarmingly – present in concentrations exceeding levels set by human health agencies.
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DNA Transcription Is a Choreographed Dance

A new study captures RNA polymerase II in real time, revealing how it accelerates, pauses and shifts speed as it reads DNA. Researchers uncovered the precise choreography behind gene reading.
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