An early advocate of the sequencing of the human genome reflects on his own predictions from 1986.
An early advocate of the sequencing of the human genome reflects on his own predictions from 1986.
History repeats itself, and so do trends in research funding.
The publication I launched a quarter century ago has come further than anyone ever expected.
In an essay entitled "Nurture, Nature, and the Stress That is Life," neurobiologists Darlene Francis and Daniela Kaufer envision a future where science moves past the nature vs. nurture debate in considering differences in human behavioral responses to stress.
Considered a renegade by his peers, Nobel Prize-winner Eric Kandel used a simple model to probe the neural circuitry of memory.
Government and industry are the biggest funders of research, basic and otherwise. Here is how science funding in the US and European Union has shaped up in the past two and a half decades. View a pdf Read the full story.
A selection of quotes from past issues of The Scientist
Eric Kandel, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work on signal transduction in the nervous system, chats about the ever-changing field of neuroscience, funding, his students, and what he hopes science will accomplish.
A handful of life science researchers will take home the United States' top science honor.
"Scientists Against Sample Abuse" aims to raise awareness about the importance of consistency when it comes to handling biological samples.