With an eye to understanding animal regeneration, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado has turned a freshwater planarian into a model system to watch.
With an eye to understanding animal regeneration, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado has turned a freshwater planarian into a model system to watch.
For the first time researchers have demonstrated the molecular tango that gives rise to repeating patterns in developing animal embryos.
The researcher who helped develop an Alzheimer's treatment now in clinical trials warns that the compound may actually impair memory.
Imaging cell cytoskeletons during early embryonic development leads researchers to uncover a new regulator of cell shape
The president’s administration will increase funding for the debilitating neurodegenerative disease this year and next. But where will the money come from?
February 1, 2012
Meet some of the people featured in the February 2012 issue of The Scientist.
Turning a standard technique into an unbiased screen for diagnostic biomarkers
Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease are ready for widespread use in clinical trials.
Proteins that appear before patients show symptoms of the disease could offer clues to the disease process.