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August 1, 2011
Meet some of the people featured in the August 2011 issue of The Scientist.
This lens-free, pinhead-size camera could someday grace the tip of a surgery needle or take cheap 3D images of cells.
Unlike human brains, chimpanzee brains don’t get smaller as they age, suggesting that pronounced neurological decline is a uniquely human byproduct of our oversized brains and extreme longevity.
A UK panel puts forth guidelines for research that use experimental animals harboring human cells and tissues.
A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in genomics, genetics, and related areas, from Faculty of 1000
For the first time, WHO warns against the use of a diagnostic method.
A method for precise gene editing is able to change disease-causing point mutations in human stem cell DNA.
Eleanor Simpson, a neuroscientist at Columbia University Medical Center, discusses a recent Nature paper that probes dopamine's role in helping animals make positive associations to stimuli that herald pleasurable outcomes (such as the handing out of food).
A fully-functional tooth grown from stem cells is successfully implanted into a mouse.
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