Scientists are using genetic techniques to target diseases that affect how we see, hear, smell, taste, and feel.
Scientists are using genetic techniques to target diseases that affect how we see, hear, smell, taste, and feel.
Microbes affect weight loss; dozens of cancer-linked genes identified; a climate change scientists speaks out about personal attacks; isolation among elderly linked to death
Microbial changes in the gut contribute to a patient’s ability to slim down after gastric bypass surgery.
Italy’s outgoing health minister allows patients to receive an unproven stem cell cocktail at the government’s expense.
Attacks on my work aimed at undermining climate change science have turned me into a public figure. I have come to embrace that role.
Researchers identify a protein involved in the chromosomal disorder that could explain its characteristic learning deficits.
Federal science agencies get some relief from the harsh cuts to their 2013 budgets instituted by the recent sequester.
Venom-based drugs for pain; microbes in the deep ocean; altruistic, suicidal bacteria; a call for open access; clinical sequencing; the newest genomes
Computer programs that trawl research papers can reveal important large-scale patterns and facilitate further research, but publishers are wary.
Researchers show that a bacterium’s self-sacrifice can benefit its community, even when the members are not strongly related.