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[ Vol. 26 No. 3 ]
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Microbial Social Network

Decoding bacterial chatter may clarify our relationship to their vast communities.

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In This Issue

Driven
 
with videos
Explorers
 
with audio
Partners for the Environment
 
with slideshow
Intoxicating Research
 
with video
The Guide on the Side
 
Time to Sprout
 
Contributors
Camp Normal

HHMI medical fellow Dylan Wolman spends his summers helping kids learn to manage their type 1 diabetes.

Perennial Treasure

HHMI Professor Scott Strobel gives trees a second life by turning them into beautiful bowls and pens.

Partners for the Environment

In Maryland and Virginia, every stream and park can be an outdoor classroom.

Now You See It
Replacing the lipid-rich infrastructure of the brain with a hydrogel makes it transparent, revealing details of its circuitry.

Articles

A Helpful Hormone

Betatrophin increases the production of beta cells, the body’s insulin factories.

Dialing Back a Disease

A cellular signaling pathway affects the levels of a protein that kills nerve cells.

Community Building

Malaria parasites help each other survive by passing messages between red blood cells.

Briefs

Another Role for Vitamin D?
The Geometry of (Cell) Division
Advance Malaria Alert
Lights, Camera, Transcription!
Newborn Heart Disease Culprits
With Time Comes Diversity
Tolerate Thine Enemy

Perspectives & Opinions

Hypothesis: Unknown

Observation-driven studies have a place in science

Tell us about an observation that sent your research in an unexpected direction.

President's Message

Investing in the Basics
by Robert Tjian, PhD