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Animal Divorce: When and Why Pairs Break Up
Catherine Offord | Jun 1, 2022 | 10+ min read
Many species of birds and other vertebrates form pair bonds and mate with just one other individual for much of their lives. But the unions don’t always work out. Scientists want to know the underlying factors.
How Interconnected Is Life in the Ocean?
Catherine Offord | Nov 1, 2019 | 10+ min read
To help create better conservation and management plans, researchers are measuring how marine organisms move between habitats and populations.
Science Grants
The Scientist Staff | Oct 30, 1988 | 1 min read
Medical research. Grants of $1 million each from the Baxter Foundation, Los Angeles, to Harvard University for studies of skin cancer, herpes, and AIDS and to Northwestern University to support research in biomedical engineering and immunology Lyme Disease Center. $40,000 from Grumman Aerospace Corp. to the State University of New York, Stony Brook Geriatrics. Two grants from the Charles A. Dana Foundation, Greenwich, Conn.: $500,000 to the University of Washington for the integration of gero
Peter Tyack: Marine Mammal Communications
Anna Azvolinsky | Jul 1, 2016 | 9 min read
The University of St. Andrews behavioral ecologist studies the social structures and behaviors of whales and dolphins, recording and analyzing their acoustic communications.
Week in Review: August 31–September 4
Tracy Vence | Sep 4, 2015 | 2 min read
How innate immune cells guide adaptive ones; PubPeer founders identify themselves; how climate change could affect a cyanobacterium; psychology’s replication problem
Bacteria as Living Microrobots to Fight Cancer
Simone Schuerle and Tal Danino | Apr 1, 2020 | 10+ min read
Autonomous, living microrobots that seek and destroy cancer are not as futuristic as one might imagine, thanks to a fusion of robotics and synthetic biology.
How to Create a Successful Fish Tale?
A. J. S. Rayl | Aug 19, 2001 | 10+ min read
More than 80 percent of the planet's living organisms exist only in aquatic ecosystems. Some may harbor secrets to human origins, and clues, treatments--perhaps even cures--for human disease. Some are critical bioindicators that portend the health of the biosphere. Yet, overall, scientists know little about the biochemical processes of these life forms. The vast, rich knowledge within the oceans and freshwater systems on Earth remains virtually untapped, because in the world of biological resear
Those We Lost in 2018
Ashley Yeager | Dec 26, 2018 | 10+ min read
The scientific community said goodbye to a number of leading researchers this year.
Cool Cloning
Karen Hopkin | Jul 1, 2008 | 7 min read
Lynn Cooley figured she'd study sea creatures, then decided to revolutionize genetics instead.
Career-Enhancing Training Courses
Kate Devine | Feb 4, 2001 | 6 min read
Navigating today's job market requires the proper mix of knowledge and skills. Training courses, typically in the summer, provide the life scientist a means of acquiring additional expertise that can help attain that mix. For decades, well-established institutes have offered classroom and laboratory courses to enhance a life scientist's career.1 Additionally, some organizations are now considering long-distance electronic learning. According to John Macauley, director, Office of Courses a

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