Designing the simplest possible living organism artificially may lend clues as to what life is.
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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.
Biomedical research can learn from citizen science, which is grounded in strong relationships with study participants.
Prognostic signatures have become popular tools in cancer research, but it turns out signatures made of random genes are prognostic as well.
How next-generation sequencing technologies will drive a new era of research on non-model organisms.
A legal remedy is needed to curb unethical “guest authorship” in medical journals.
US border policy and fences threaten wildlife across the continent.
After a historic UN meeting, global efforts must be coordinated against noncommunicable diseases to thwart the world’s leading causes of death and disability.
Can science step in to find the best ways of allocating money for research?