Presidential science advisor argues against draft legislation that would change how the National Science Foundation judges grant proposals.
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.
The names and addresses of people participating in the Personal Genome Project can be easily tracked down despite such data being left off their online profiles.
The brain’s role in aging; tracking disease; understanding the new flu virus; no autism-Lyme link; one drug’s journey from bench to bedside
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.
Desulfobulbaceae bacteria were recently discovered to form centimeter-long cables, containing thousands of cells that share an outer membrane.
| May 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the May 2013 issue of The Scientist.
One, two, three, four . . . . Counting colonies and plaques can be tedious, but tools exist to streamline the process.
USC researcher Mohamed El-Naggar demonstrates how some bacteria grow electrical wires that allow them to link up in big biological circuits.