Experimental Pill to Treat Parkinson’s Is Safe, Trial Finds

By Andy Carstens

Testing in animals and lab-grown cells suggests the experimental drug could enhance the function of lysosomes within cells.

Robot Finger’s Living Skin Stretches, Heals Like the Real Thing

By Christie Wilcox

Researchers in Japan have given a plastic robot finger a layered coating made from actual, living skin cells. Next, they aim to add hair and sweat glands.

The Spider Lady, Circa 1939

By Natalia Mesa

Nan Songer, a spider expert living in California, played an integral part in the Allies’ success in World War II by supplying silk for bombsights.

Mouse Foraging Behavior Shaped by Opposite-Sex Parent’s Genes

By Dan Robitzski

A study in mice finds that for certain genes, one parent’s allele can dominate expression and shape behavior—and which parent’s allele does so varies throughout the body.

 Update: WHO Panel on SARS-CoV-2 Origins Releases Preliminary Report

Virus Alters Caterpillars’ Vision to Trick Them into Climbing

Can These Fish Do Math?

Webinar: MULTI-seq: Single-Cell Genomic Sample Multiplexing Using Lipid-Tagged Indices

By MilliporeSigma

Chris McGinnis will describe the advantages and applications of MULTI-seq using lipid-modified oligonucleotides, while Jennifer Silverman will discuss using the MULTI-seq Lipid-Modified Oligos kit in single-cell analysis workflows.

eBook: Adapting Flow Cytometry for Drug Discovery Workflows

By Bio-Rad

Explore how flow cytometry innovations expand and accelerate cell profiling.

June 2022 Interactive Crossword

By Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

Can you think of a 5-letter word for “subject of optics”?

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