Experts in Washington have reached an agreement over how to fund avian influenza research.
Experts in Washington have reached an agreement over how to fund avian influenza research.
Advocacy groups are petitioning Congress to avoid sequestration, which could leave funding for science billions of dollars short in 2013.
The National Institutes of Health is considering a pilot program that would keep the identity of grant applicants hidden from reviewers.
Fat cells behave differently in obese individuals, causing inflammation and insulin resitance.
A researcher tries and fails to garner support for petitions to increase the National Institutes of Health’s budget as sequestration looms.
The healing powers of maggots may lie in their secreted proteins, which restrain the human immune response.
Adipose tissue plays an immune role in individuals of normal wieght.
| December 1, 2012
Meet some of the people featured in the December 2012 issue of The Scientist.
Certain immune cells keep adipose tissue in check by helping to define normal and abnormal physiological states.
Can emulating our early human ancestors make us healthier?