Systems biologist Lone Gram describes her approach to combing the oceans for novel compounds that may be useful in the fight against pathogens.
Systems biologist Lone Gram describes her approach to combing the oceans for novel compounds that may be useful in the fight against pathogens.
| March 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the March 2013 issue of The Scientist.
A normally land-based microbiologist sets sail to find the building blocks of novel antibiotics in marine bacteria.
The global spread of dengue virus has immunologists and public-health experts debating the best way to curb infection.
During development, communication between organs determines their relative final size.
Bioluminescent arcs on a deep-sea lantern shark’s dorsal side highlight its spines.
Tuberculosis bacteria find shelter from drugs and the body’s defenses in bone marrow stem cells.
Meet the bacterium that pulls gold ions out of solution and forms tiny nuggets of the precious metal.
Collective cell migration relies on a directional signal that comes from the moving cluster, rather than from external cues.
Watch the cell transplant experiments in zebrafish that suggest certain embryonic cells rely on intrinsic directional cues for collective migration.