Should biological explanations for criminal behavior influence a judge’s or jury’s decision about how to handle a case? If so, how?
Should biological explanations for criminal behavior influence a judge’s or jury’s decision about how to handle a case? If so, how?
Recording brain activity as patients are anesthetized for surgery, researchers identify a pattern that may signal loss of consciousness.
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.
Large RNA-protein packets use a novel mechanism to escape the cell nucleus.
Swapping chromosomes from one human egg to another could eliminate mitochondrial DNA mutations that cause disease.
The blogosphere voices widespread condemnation for a sexist comment made by a researcher attending this week’s annual Society for Neuroscience conference.
Keith Campbell, a biologist who was part of the effort to clone Dolly the sheep, has passed away at the age of 58.
New research shows that the growth of long-range connections between brain regions predicts how well a child will learn to read.