A compound that targets a particular opioid receptor in the amygdala reduces the formation of PTSD-like systems in mice subjected to severe trauma.
A compound that targets a particular opioid receptor in the amygdala reduces the formation of PTSD-like systems in mice subjected to severe trauma.
Crowdsourcing biomedical research; bird flu contagion?; zebrafish shed light on inherited muscle disorder; the economics of the Human Genome Project; the epigenetics of pair bonding
Stimulating brain cells with light reveals the dysfunctional circuitry that causes obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Analysis of citation data from last year suggests that genomics is still the most influential field of research.
Scientists discover gene behind an inherited muscle disorder by studying zebrafish embryos.
Top justices rule that police have the right to take DNA swabs from people who are arrested, even before they are convicted.
Was the Human Genome Project the key to a gold mine?
| June 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the June 2013 issue of The Scientist.
Highlights from a series of three webinars on the future of genome research, held by The Scientist to celebrate 60 years of the DNA double helix
Highways and byways are among the man-made environmental alterations driving the evolution of animals on contemporary timescales, with implications for ecology.