Life's Ratchet, The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix, The Fractalist and Hallucinations
Life's Ratchet, The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix, The Fractalist and Hallucinations
Researchers learn to predict visual imagery in dreams based on functional MRI scans of brain activity during sleep.
A microfluidic device scans individual C. elegans for abnormal traits and sorts wild-type animals from mutants.
Doctors turn to good microbes to fight disease. Will the same strategy work with crops?
Using laboratory information management systems (LIMS) to automate and streamline laboratory tasks: three case studies
Unlike epithelial cells, neurons respond to herpes infection through autophagy, rather than by releasing inflammatory factors.
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Sequencing the whole genomes of bacterial pathogens as they spread among hospital patients and health care workers could transform the control of infectious disease.
In guinea pigs, the insertion of a single gene can transform ordinary heart cells into pacemaker cells that regulate cardiac rhythm.
The science images and videos that captured our attention in 2012