Christian de Duve chose to be euthanized at home in Belgium at age 95.
Christian de Duve chose to be euthanized at home in Belgium at age 95.
What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes
Presidential science advisor argues against draft legislation that would change how the National Science Foundation judges grant proposals.
As telomeres shorten with age, genes as far as 1,000 kilobases away could be affected, including one responsible for an inherited muscle disease.
Researchers use a protein-lipid complex found in human breast milk to increase the activity of otherwise-ineffective antibiotics against drug-resistant pathogens.
Hybrid viruses derived from an H5N1 bird flu strain can infect guinea pigs through the air.
A court ruling that stops the European Medicines Agency from releasing data from two US companies calls into question the agency’s push for transparency.
In a recent speech, the President defended spending on science and the peer-review process.
In Chapter 4, “Darwin’s Barnacles, Agassiz’s Jellyfish,” author Christoph Irmscher describes his subject’s obsession with marine organisms.
Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin’s unheralded codiscoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection, found inspiration in the specimens he collected on his travels.