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Appears in 3 stories · Last updated Oct 31, 2026
Hosted the initial paper
Workers of the ant Lordomyrma azumai carry a glue gun in their venom gland. A secretion that is likely protein-based hardens into a sticky thread when extruded, and workers wipe it onto intruders to pin them to the soil.
Updated Oct 31
Hosted the PrimeStack preprint in April 2026
For three decades, adding a gene to a crop meant random insertion and hoping it landed somewhere harmless. PrimeStack replaces that lottery. It writes multikilobase gene cassettes into predefined 'safe harbor' spots in the rice genome, at up to 45% efficiency—about seven times the prior best.
Updated Oct 30
As of September 2026: Hosted the study ahead of peer review
A heart from an older donor appears to shed its age after transplant into a younger patient. Within months its DNA methylation pattern — a molecular measure of accumulated cellular wear — realigns to the recipient's biological age.
Updated Sep 28
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