The poxvirus stockpiles genes when it needs to adapt.
The poxvirus stockpiles genes when it needs to adapt.
The Scientist’s 5th installment of its annual competition attracted submissions from across the life science spectrum. Here are the best and brightest products of the year.
Nominated as a write-in candidate as a protest against the anti-science incumbent, famed naturalist Charles Darwin won 4,000 congressional votes in a Georgia county.
Borrowing techniques from nail and hair salons, researchers have devised a method to tag small, previously untrackable sea turtles.
In Chapter 2, "Consequences and Evolution: The Cause That Works Backwards," author Susan M. Schneider places evolutionary theory in terms of the science of consequences.
New noninvasive methods of selecting the most viable embryo could revolutionize in vitro fertilization.
| November 1, 2012
Meet some of the people featured in the November 2012 issue of The Scientist.
Beauty salon technologies help researchers tag and follow young sea turtles like never before.
Large RNA-protein packets use a novel mechanism to escape the cell nucleus.