Studying the earliest events in visual development, Carla Shatz has learned the importance of looking at one’s data with open eyes—and an open mind.
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Take a tour of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), whose ultra-powerful X-ray beam is being used to solve the structures of proteins that are notoriously hard to crystallize.
This animation illustrates optogenetics—a radical new technology for controlling brain activity with light. Ed Boyden, the co-inventor of this technology, is a professor at the MIT Media Lab and at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, where he continues to develop new technologies for controlling brain activity.
A powerful new X-ray–generating laser is imaging smaller crystals than ever before.
A powerful new X-ray–generating laser is imaging smaller crystals than ever before.
A virtual lab—where all sorts of parameters are monitored and recorded—promises researchers a higher degree of reproducibility.
Researchers map pigments in early bird fossils using preserved metallic residues.
The president of the University of the Ryukyus in Japan coauthored a paper containing a duplicated figure.
A confession and supportive letters convince a judge to go easy on a researcher who fabricated data in a federal grant proposal
Two new approaches to test bone density provide a simpler way to predict risk of osteoporosis.
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