Careful oversight is required to ensure that chimeras and transgenic animals continue to serve as powerful biomedical research tools.
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Careful oversight is required to ensure that chimeras and transgenic animals continue to serve as powerful biomedical research tools.
An artist suggests that being buried in a suit laden with decomposing fungi may be healthier for the mind and the environment.
Biologists and conservationists are too eager to demonize non-native species.
Pharmacovigilance must keep pace with global distribution of drugs in resource-limited settings.
Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences was crawling with bugs, and The Scientist went down to join in the fun.
Current farming practices draw too much of the world’s freshwater supplies to be sustainable. A change is needed to support growing agricultural demand.
New testing technologies and improved communication among regulatory agencies are making strides in the fight against foodborne disease.
A new exhibit at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia celebrates the work of an artist who is also the world’s authority on grasshoppers and crickets.
Improved immunization efforts are required to prevent infections during the first 6 months of life, when newborn and infants are highly susceptible to disease.
A new educational framework swaps breadth of scientific disciplines for depth and emphasizes the process of science.