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03.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 39 T he little black mouse’s feet dan- gled above the table as the ani- mal clutched a horizontal wire w ...

TELOMERE DYSFUNCTION This can occur when protective pieces of DNA at the ends of chromosomes grow shorter with successive cell d ...

03.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 41 CREDIT LINE CHRONIC INFLAMMATION Senescent cells secrete proinfl ammatory cytokines, which trigger ch ...

“This study and later ones gave a ‘biological reason’ for senescent cells to exist, which was to protect from can- cer,” says Bi ...

03.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 43 BIRGIT RITSCHKA, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY, VIENNA, FORMERLY OF THE KEYES LAB mulate ...

44 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com researchers conducting animal and clin- ical studies administer these targeted senolytics l ...

03.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 45 could be adverse consequences from kill- ing senescent cells. If cells, even those in a state of sene ...

THE PAPER S. Scherzer et al., “Venus flytrap trigger hairs are micronewton mechano-sensors that can detect small insect prey,” N ...

03.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 47 KIM AAEN, NATUREEYES; ANDREAS BATTENBERG/TUM PATHOGEN PROTECTION: Weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) ...

48 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com PROFILE SALK INSTITUTE 2019 A s a Harvard Medical School postdoc in the 1980s, Joanne Chory ...

03.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 49 CAREER TITLES/AWARDS Adjunct Professor, Division of Biological Sciences,  University of California, S ...

50 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com PROFILE Diego (UCSD), over the last three decades. She estimates that around 20 graduate st ...

51 I t’s not easy to monitor electrical activ- ity in an aphid. But it can be done with wire and glue. This electrical penetrati ...

52 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com COURTESY OF CANNASAFE W hen voters in Massachu- setts approved a 2012 bal- lot measure to l ...

03.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 53 derived products falls to states, creating a patchwork of different testing require- ments across the ...

54 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com COURTESY OF CANNASAFE centrations of contaminants are safe. Most research on pesticide toxi ...

Still, some states have managed to set up their own proficiency programs. In 2016, Nevada began to send cannabis sam- ples to ce ...

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Repetitive laboratory tasks cause numerous shoulder, forearm, wrist, and hand injuries. Research has shown that pipetting just 1 ...

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