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Those tiny bumps on your tongue have a name: taste papillae, home to the taste buds behind every flavor you’ve experienc...
06/05/2026

Those tiny bumps on your tongue have a name: taste papillae, home to the taste buds behind every flavor you’ve experienced. Confocal microscopy paints a mouse's taste papillae in vivid color: pink taste buds, yellow nerves, & blue-green nuclei. 📸 Dany Gaillard & Linda Barlow, University of Colorado Anschutz

06/02/2026

Before the lab bench, there was the baseball diamond. Gilliam Fellow JP Flores (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) brings the resilience he learned as a former D3 shortstop to his research on how DNA's orientation helps cells adapt to stress. Psst: Applications for this year's Gilliam competition open 9/1! bit.ly/Gilliam26

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