Transcriptome studies reveal new insights about unusual animals whose genomes have not been sequenced.
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.
A champion of breast cancer awareness in the African-American community passes away at 63.
Drosophila insulin-like peptides (dILPs) regulate part of the signaling pathway that helps keep organs growing in proportion during development.
| March 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the March 2013 issue of The Scientist.
Citizen scientists can inspire innovation and advance science education—and they are proving adept at self-policing.
How should the government ensure the safety and responsibility of do-it-yourself biologists?
Do-it-yourself science is likely as old as science itself, driven by an inherent curiosity about the world around us.
During development, communication between organs determines their relative final size.
Officials in the most populous nation on Earth have finally owned up to clusters of the disease around areas beset by industrial waste and other pollutants.