A new microfluidics chip lets researchers analyze the nucleic acids of 300 individual cells simultaneously.
A new microfluidics chip lets researchers analyze the nucleic acids of 300 individual cells simultaneously.
More than 100 researchers have left a neuroscience institute in Brazil in the last couple of weeks, protesting managerial problems they say are thwarting their work.
Researchers identify new mutations in schizophrenia patients without a family history of the disease.
The United Kingdom is revamping its intellectual property laws for published research.
The Nobel Prize winner who discovered the gene that encodes the major histocompatibility complex passes away at age 90.
A new educational framework swaps breadth of scientific disciplines for depth and emphasizes the process of science.
| August 1, 2011
In Chapter 6, "Research and Teaching at the All-Administrative University," author Benjamin Ginsberg describes the perils of pursuing scholarship and teaching in the industrial environment of today's American institutions of higher learning.
Motivated by a career-ending ligament tear, a former NFL player starts a company to test athletes' genetic predispositions to common sports injuries.
Using the strongest molecular binding partnership in biology to separate different cell types
Isolating specific cell types from a mass of plant or animal tissue is laborious and tricky. To study epigenetic changes and genes that are expressed differently in different cell lineages—such as cancer cells versus normal cells, or the two types of