A chance encounter with a crab apple tree leads to the discovery of a new bacterial species and clues to the evolution of insect endosymbionts.
A chance encounter with a crab apple tree leads to the discovery of a new bacterial species and clues to the evolution of insect endosymbionts.
Systems biologist Lone Gram describes her approach to combing the oceans for novel compounds that may be useful in the fight against pathogens.
A normally land-based microbiologist sets sail to find the building blocks of novel antibiotics in marine bacteria.
Inducing certain brain patterns extends non-REM sleep in mice.
The global spread of dengue virus has immunologists and public-health experts debating the best way to curb infection.
Children with dyslexia have an easier time learning to read after playing action video games that don’t incorporate reading.
Previously enigmatic circular RNAs have been found to influence gene expression by binding to and blocking another class of regulatory RNA, the microRNAs.
Blind tadpoles regain vision when new eyes are grafted onto their tails.
Transplanting mouse neurons into rats allows the neurons to survive twice as long as they would in mice.
One gene involved in speech produces more of its protein in the brains of young girls than boys.