Elwood Jensen, whose research inspired new treatments for breast cancer, has passed away at age 92.
Elwood Jensen, whose research inspired new treatments for breast cancer, has passed away at age 92.
Despite decades of work, compounds in frog skins have failed to yield new antibiotics. Why?
Carl Woese, the discoverer of the third domain of life, has passed away at age 84.
There's a lot more than dirt to the soil in which plants grow.
Scientists studying the Arctic Ocean aboard a US Coast Guard icebreaker discover one of the largest phytoplankton blooms ever recorded—beneath sea ice.
Patterns of cell death aid in the formation of beneficial wrinkles during the development of bacterial biofilms.
In the final chapter of his book on the origins of vertebrate sex, author and paleontologist John Long pays homage to the humble placoderm, which got the erotic ball rolling.
| January 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the January 2013 issue of The Scientist.
Doctors turn to good microbes to fight disease. Will the same strategy work with crops?
Gregory Hannon believes in taking risks—an approach that’s enabled him to make exciting new discoveries in the world of small RNAs.