Fueled by donations, sweat, and occasional dumpster diving, community laboratories for DIY biologists are cropping up around the country.
Fueled by donations, sweat, and occasional dumpster diving, community laboratories for DIY biologists are cropping up around the country.
Systems biologist Lone Gram describes her approach to combing the oceans for novel compounds that may be useful in the fight against pathogens.
A survey of The Scientist readers reveals who buys cell-growth products from whom, and why.
Nanoscale cracks in bone dissipate energy to protect against fracture, a process that appears to be regulated by the interaction of two proteins.
Things break in the lab. Here’s how to protect your equipment, and what to do when it stops working.
A normally land-based microbiologist sets sail to find the building blocks of novel antibiotics in marine bacteria.
Inducing certain brain patterns extends non-REM sleep in mice.
Scotch tape and a scalpel provide a MacGyver-esque approach to microfabrication.
The global spread of dengue virus has immunologists and public-health experts debating the best way to curb infection.