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The controversy and hype have died down. The science is very much alive­, creating new directions for discovery.

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What if the tool needed to move science forward doesn’t yet exist? Here are gadgets and techniques born from improvisation that made impossible experiments possible.

The tech that money can’t buy

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Private investments are making it possible to reimagine 21st-century bioscience. Cori Bargmann envisions a future with opportunity for researchers everywhere

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How did songbirds start singing? Neuroscientists are reshaping our understanding of speech—pinpointing the cells and molecules that built it and what happens in the brain when we learn a new word, chirp, or squeal.

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Clinical scholar Rachel Niec is surveying the vast landscape of the human gut, and becoming both a medical and scientific expert on GI disease.

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The ribosome—a huge molecule that translates a cell's genetic code into protein—has been thoroughly scrutinized for over 70 years. It still holds many secrets, which is why structural biologist Sebastian Klinge has dedicated his career to understanding what makes ribosomes tick.

The machine that built all living things—and itself

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