What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes
What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes
The cell fragments play a role in the body’s first line of defense against bacterial infection, helping white blood cells grab blood-borne bacteria in the liver.
Directed evolution of a gene therapy virus vector improves its penetration into the retina.
Researchers identify the signaling program that enables finger and toenail stem cells to direct digit regeneration after amputation.
A Canadian lab demonstrates upgrades to hospital cyclotrons that can yield enough diagnostic tracer element overnight to meet an entire city’s daily needs.
Crowdsourcing biomedical research; bird flu contagion?; zebrafish shed light on inherited muscle disorder; the economics of the Human Genome Project; the epigenetics of pair bonding
Stimulating brain cells with light reveals the dysfunctional circuitry that causes obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Regular supplies of food for scavenger birds in Spain may not be the most effective conservation strategy, as smaller birds are bullied away.
| June 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the June 2013 issue of The Scientist.
Highways and byways are among the man-made environmental alterations driving the evolution of animals on contemporary timescales, with implications for ecology.