Fueled by donations, sweat, and occasional dumpster diving, community laboratories for DIY biologists are cropping up around the country.
Fueled by donations, sweat, and occasional dumpster diving, community laboratories for DIY biologists are cropping up around the country.
Systems biologist Lone Gram describes her approach to combing the oceans for novel compounds that may be useful in the fight against pathogens.
A survey of The Scientist readers reveals who buys cell-growth products from whom, and why.
Nanoscale cracks in bone dissipate energy to protect against fracture, a process that appears to be regulated by the interaction of two proteins.
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.
The first researcher to clone the gene for green fluorescent protein, but who was passed over for the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is back in academic science.
Researchers have created a molecule that helps nanoparticles evade immune attack and could improve drug delivery.