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Tardigrades are everywhere. They’re tiny — usually under a millimeter long — and they’re mostly transparent, so they’re easy to miss. But you probably walk by them every day. We’ve been grooming them as emerging models for studying how body forms evolve and how biological materials can survive extreme conditions.
Even without a stint on an ocean-faring vessel, scientists can trawl through data to explore marine viruses and address new puzzles and cultural shifts.
The study of human–animal chimeras is fraught with technical and ethical challenges. In this Comment, we discuss the importance and future of human–monkey chimera research within the context of current scientific and regulatory obstacles.
Deep Visual Proteomics combines the power of deep-learning-based image analysis with microdissection and ultrasensitive mass spectrometry to provide insights into the spatial proteome.