Contributors
| November 1, 2012
Meet some of the people featured in the November 2012 issue of The Scientist.
| November 1, 2012
Meet some of the people featured in the November 2012 issue of The Scientist.
Successive awakening of soil microbes drives a huge pulse of CO2 following the first rain after a dry summer.
Despite abundant evidence supporting their ability to help prevent and treat cardiovascular disease, the therapeutic effectiveness of fish oil–derived fatty acids remains controversial.
Large RNA-protein packets use a novel mechanism to escape the cell nucleus.
Mice fed a mix of six strains of bacteria were able to fight a C. difficile infection that causes deadly diarrhea and is resistant to most types of treatment.
Individuals of a newly discovered microbe species line up end-to-end to form electron transport cables many times their length.
Swapping chromosomes from one human egg to another could eliminate mitochondrial DNA mutations that cause disease.
The federal government tightens regulations on SARS and other deadly viruses, but the changes could hamper research.
A parasitic worm accumulates epigenetic DNA tags over its lifetime.