A normally land-based microbiologist sets sail to find the building blocks of novel antibiotics in marine bacteria.
A normally land-based microbiologist sets sail to find the building blocks of novel antibiotics in marine bacteria.
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.
Doctors turn to good microbes to fight disease. Will the same strategy work with crops?
The science images and videos that captured our attention in 2012
Long-term exposure to antibiotics from agricultural run off may encourage the evolution of soil bacteria that break down and consume the antibacterial agents.
The US Food and Drug Administration is taking steps to get new devices on the market sooner—and antibiotics may be next.
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.