Double helix celebrates 60; detecting calories without taste; bacteria vs. tumor; perceptual consciousness in babies
Double helix celebrates 60; detecting calories without taste; bacteria vs. tumor; perceptual consciousness in babies
Researchers in the Amazon are measuring how much carbon dioxide fertilizes the rainforest.
Rodents and fruit flies appear to be able to sense nutrients even when they can’t taste the food they’re eating. Now, researchers are trying to figure out how.
A newly developed drug, modeled after a bacteria-infecting virus, is less likely to become antibiotic resistant.
Scientists are stumped as to why hundreds of starved pups have been washing up on the California shore.
Researchers develop two small molecules that slow the growth of human cancer cells.
Satellites of the Golgi apparatus generate the microtubules used to grow outer dendrite branches in Drosophila neurons.
Histone acetylation levels keep intracellular pH in check.
Professor, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology. Age: 40
Microbes affect weight loss; dozens of cancer-linked genes identified; a climate change scientists speaks out about personal attacks; isolation among elderly linked to death