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.
A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research
Newly excavated Australopithecus sediba fossils exhibit a mixture of primitive and more modern features.
Biologists and conservationists are too eager to demonize non-native species.
Pharmacovigilance must keep pace with global distribution of drugs in resource-limited settings.
A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in evolutionary biology, from Faculty of 1000
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.
Improved immunization efforts are required to prevent infections during the first 6 months of life, when newborn and infants are highly susceptible to disease.
Researchers use directed evolution to create a bacterial strain that substitutes a synthetic base for thymine.