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  • A nowhere-to-hide mechanism ensures complete piRNA-directed DNA methylation

    A nowhere-to-hide mechanism ensures complete piRNA-directed DNA methylation

  • Aravin, A. A., Sachidanandam, R., Girard, A., Fejes-Toth, K. & Hannon, G. J. Developmentally regulated piRNA clusters implicate MILI in transposon control. Science 316, 744–747 (2007).

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  • Six steps to protect researchers’ digital security

    Six steps to protect researchers’ digital security

    Academics around the world are increasingly under fire. In January 2025, the American Association of Colleges and Universities published a survey that found that 53% of US faculty members were worried that their work would make them targets of…

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  • AI tools boost individual scientists but could limit research as a whole

    AI tools boost individual scientists but could limit research as a whole

    Nature, Published online: 14 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04092-3

    Analyses of hundreds of thousands of papers in the natural sciences reveal a paradox: scientists who use AI tools produce more research but on a more confined set of topics.

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  • Disease tolerance and infection pathogenesis age-related tradeoffs in mice

    Disease tolerance and infection pathogenesis age-related tradeoffs in mice

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    For LD50 and inhibitor experiments, C57BL/6 female mice from Jackson Laboratories (000664) were used. Young mice were used at 12 weeks of age or roughly 12 weeks of age (12–14 weeks). Aged mice were used at 72–76 weeks of age….

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  • N1-Methylpseudouridine directly modulates translation dynamics

    N1-Methylpseudouridine directly modulates translation dynamics

  • Saxena, S. et al. The future of mRNA vaccines: potential beyond COVID-19. Cureus 17, e84529 (2025).

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  • AI can turbocharge scientists’ careers — but limit their scope

    AI can turbocharge scientists’ careers — but limit their scope

    Nature, Published online: 14 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00162-2

    Artificial intelligence use can boost outputs, at the cost of research breadth — plus, solving the mystery of the Universe’s ‘little red dots’.

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  • U.S. Space Force switches rockets for upcoming GPS satellite launch – Spaceflight Now

    U.S. Space Force switches rockets for upcoming GPS satellite launch – Spaceflight Now

    The GPS III Space Vehicle 09, the ninth GPS III spacecraft, is pictured traveling by road from Lockheed Martin facilities in Denver, CO, to Florida’s Space Coast. Image: Lockheed Martin

    The next Global Positioning System satellite is switching…

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  • NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-11 Return, Splashdown

    NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-11 Return, Splashdown

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    NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 5:05 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Jan. 14, for the undocking of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission from the International Space Station, pending weather…

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  • NASA Has Some Very Bad News About Its Mars Spacecraft

    NASA Has Some Very Bad News About Its Mars Spacecraft

    On December 6, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, which has been studying the Red Planet’s upper atmosphere for over a decade, mysteriously went offline.

    The spacecraft was expected to send telemetry back…

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