A father’s determination to help his son resulted in an experimental treatment for autism that uses roundworms to modulate inflammatory immune responses. Can the worms be used to treat other diseases?
A father’s determination to help his son resulted in an experimental treatment for autism that uses roundworms to modulate inflammatory immune responses. Can the worms be used to treat other diseases?
Meet the people behind studies that use nematodes to treat inflammatory diseases.
Gabriele Sorci discusses how invaders can band together to more effectively infect hosts.
In Chapter 3, “Credibility: Validating Discovery Claims,” author Frederick Grinnell details the difficulty in making discoveries that buck current scientific paradigms.
Quirk, Darwin's Armada, The Death & Life of Monterey Bay, Elegance in Science
The winding path that an interesting result takes to become a bona fide discovery is just one of the topics covered in this new book on the practice of science.
A book is born from pondering why sexual selection was, for so long, a minor component of evolutionary biology.
Her doctoral advisor told her to amuse herself, and Fiona Watt has done just that—probing individual stem cells and determining the genes and molecules that direct them to differentiate or cause them to contribute to cancer.