Contributors
| March 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the March 2013 issue of The Scientist.
| March 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the March 2013 issue of The Scientist.
During development, communication between organs determines their relative final size.
Collective cell migration relies on a directional signal that comes from the moving cluster, rather than from external cues.
Watch the cell transplant experiments in zebrafish that suggest certain embryonic cells rely on intrinsic directional cues for collective migration.
Researchers read the marks of intense warfare and conquest in the genes of ancient native North Americans.
The second example of storing digital data in DNA affirms its potential as a long-term storage medium.
Scientists provide evidence for the existence of four-stranded human DNA, which has previously only been theorized and synthesized.
Stomachs of flesh-eating flies carry the DNA of animals in remote rainforests.
The science images and videos that captured our attention in 2012
New noninvasive methods of selecting the most viable embryo could revolutionize in vitro fertilization.