Bees, sheep, and chimps are just a few of the animals known to self-medicate. Can they teach us about maintaining our own health?
Bees, sheep, and chimps are just a few of the animals known to self-medicate. Can they teach us about maintaining our own health?
Biomedical researchers would benefit from emulating the logically rigorous reasoning of the late Alan Turing, British mathematician, computer scientist, and master cryptographer.
The blogosphere voices widespread condemnation for a sexist comment made by a researcher attending this week’s annual Society for Neuroscience conference.
Students at Mount Sinai School of Medicine can now take a class in which they can sequence and interpret their own genomes.
A new report lays out the pitfalls of consumer genetics and suggested strategies for safeguarding DNA’s privacy.
Music videos could be helpful tools for science communication and education, but anti- and pseudoscience activists are also using this medium to spread their views.
In Chapter 3, "Out of the Tropics," author Nina G. Jablonski, explores the genes behind skin pigmentation and makes the distinction between color and race.
Presenting the best life science images and videos of 2012
The biological and social ramifications of skin pigmentation are too often ignored by scientists, teachers, and the general public.