Epigenetic perturbations could jump-start heritable variation.
Epigenetic perturbations could jump-start heritable variation.
The promise of viruses as biotech tools will help molecular biology fulfill its true potential.
Investing more federal dollars in life science research may save the US economy.
An early advocate of the sequencing of the human genome reflects on his own predictions from 1986.
History repeats itself, and so do trends in research funding.
The publication I launched a quarter century ago has come further than anyone ever expected.
Researchers studying differences in how individuals respond to stress are finding that genes are malleable and environments can be deterministic.
In an essay entitled "Nurture, Nature, and the Stress That is Life," neurobiologists Darlene Francis and Daniela Kaufer envision a future where science moves past the nature vs. nurture debate in considering differences in human behavioral responses to stress.
Dried plant specimens reveal the origin of an insect pest that has spread throughout Europe.
Government and industry are the biggest funders of research, basic and otherwise. Here is how science funding in the US and European Union has shaped up in the past two and a half decades. View a pdf Read the full story.