Organisms introduced to new habitats pose a significant threat to the native flora and fauna.
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Organisms introduced to new habitats pose a significant threat to the native flora and fauna.
A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research
Careful oversight is required to ensure that chimeras and transgenic animals continue to serve as powerful biomedical research tools.
A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in ecology, from Faculty of 1000
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.
Mosquitoes infected with the Wolbachia bacteria, which fail to transmit the dengue virus, spread through the population when released in the wild.
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.