Breeding plants that can convert more carbon dioxide to food could help feed a growing population.
Breeding plants that can convert more carbon dioxide to food could help feed a growing population.
The National Institutes of Health reveals a controversial plan to regulate the funding of H5N1 research.
Researchers develop a practical technique for deriving stem cells from routine blood samples.
While exploring the genetics of a rare type of tumor, Stephen Baylin discovered an epigenetic modification that occurs in most every cancer—a finding he’s helping bring to the clinic.
| December 1, 2012
Meet some of the people featured in the December 2012 issue of The Scientist.
Can emulating our early human ancestors make us healthier?
A protein called Coco rouses dormant breast cancer cells in the lung.
The Kyoto agreement to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions was flawed, but it provides useful lessons for upcoming climate regulation negotiations.
Autism researchers are testing the ability of whipworm eggs to treat autism in a new clinical trial.
Using satellite data, researchers calculate that mountain pine beetle infestations raise summertime temperatures in British Columbia’s pine forests by 1 degree Celsius.