Tailoring ethical oversight to participant-led research
Tailoring ethical oversight to participant-led research
Transcriptome studies reveal new insights about unusual animals whose genomes have not been sequenced.
A red alga appears to have adapted to extremely hot, acidic environments by collecting genes from bacteria and archaea.
Although fully organized patient-run trials are still few and far between, patients are taking a more active role in clinical research.
Things break in the lab. Here’s how to protect your equipment, and what to do when it stops working.
Scotch tape and a scalpel provide a MacGyver-esque approach to microfabrication.
Patients are sidestepping clinical research and using themselves as guinea pigs to test new treatments for fatal diseases. Will they hurt themselves, or science?
Physicists and biologists are working together to understand cooperation at all levels of life, from the cohesion of molecules to interspecies interactions.
The small organ evolved too many times for it to be an accident, but it’s still unclear what it does.