Obama wants to invest in science and technology, but a divided Congress and looming budget cuts could make it difficult to keep his promises.
Obama wants to invest in science and technology, but a divided Congress and looming budget cuts could make it difficult to keep his promises.
The research community is pulling together to support scientists at the hurricane-damaged NYU, but the facility has also come under fire for its lack of preparedness.
New noninvasive methods of selecting the most viable embryo could revolutionize in vitro fertilization.
| November 1, 2012
Meet some of the people featured in the November 2012 issue of The Scientist.
Large RNA-protein packets use a novel mechanism to escape the cell nucleus.
Research spending dropped $4 billion dollars in 2011, and could continue to drop, according to a new report.
Swapping chromosomes from one human egg to another could eliminate mitochondrial DNA mutations that cause disease.
Keith Campbell, a biologist who was part of the effort to clone Dolly the sheep, has passed away at the age of 58.
Laboratory-raised populations of dung beetles reveal a mother's extragenetic influence on the physiques of her sons.