Our list of the best and brightest products that 2011 had to offer the life scientist
Our list of the best and brightest products that 2011 had to offer the life scientist
A mutated feline receptor for sweet tastes explains why cats don’t love sugar but do dig mushrooms.
Elaine Mardis can make DNA sequencers sing, generating genome data that shed light on evolution and disease.
In its brief, 4-year history, The Scientist’s annual Top 10 Innovations contest has become a showcase of the coolest life science tools to emerge in the previous year. This year’s installment is no exception.
How Nobel Laureate Barbara McClintock nearly gave up genetics for meteorology
The collective intelligence of thousands of video game players is helping researchers understand the regulation of more than 500 different disease genes.
Meet the species whose DNA has recently been sequenced.
The National Institutes of Health promises about $400 million to help get personalized genetics into the clinic.
Researchers have mapped out the DNA of what some scientists claim to be an arsenic loving bacterium.