Funding only outstanding researchers is increasing the gap between good and great labs and forcing some out of science in search of a bigger paycheck.
Covering the life sciences inside and out
Funding only outstanding researchers is increasing the gap between good and great labs and forcing some out of science in search of a bigger paycheck.
Fruit flies consume alcohol to kill off parasites.
Designing the simplest possible living organism artificially may lend clues as to what life is.
While biotechnology has met with mixed public reactions, to date nanotechnology seems to invoke much less public concern.
Celebrity spokespeople for pharma companies can manipulate the public’s understanding of disease.
Research in yeast shows that aneuploidy is both a consequence of and an adaptation to stress.
Populations of organisms acquire beneficial traits repeatedly and rapidly through co-evolution with other species and through gene interaction.
Biomedical research can learn from citizen science, which is grounded in strong relationships with study participants.
Using an artificial selection paradigm, researchers watch as unicellular yeast evolve into snowflake-like clusters with distinct multicellular characteristics.
For the first time, researchers culture a bacteria that uses a magnetic sulfide compound to navigate.