Pigeons may use ultra-low-frequency sounds to navigate—a strategy that could steer them off course in the face of infrasonic disturbances, such as sonic booms.
Pigeons may use ultra-low-frequency sounds to navigate—a strategy that could steer them off course in the face of infrasonic disturbances, such as sonic booms.
Satellites of the Golgi apparatus generate the microtubules used to grow outer dendrite branches in Drosophila neurons.
Advances in genomics and cancer biology will alter the design of human cancer studies.
| April 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the April 2013 issue of The Scientist.
A decade into the age of genomics, science is generating a flood of data that will help in the quest to eradicate the disease.
Histone acetylation levels keep intracellular pH in check.
Tooth-like structures on the skin of a South American fish might serve as high-velocity water-flow detectors.
By scrutinizing gene expression profiles instead of individual oncogenes, Todd Golub launched a powerful platform for diagnosing, classifying, and treating cancer.
Research into how the brain suffers as a result of chemotherapy is revealing potential avenues for ameliorating cognitive decline.
Scientists are using genetic techniques to target diseases that affect how we see, hear, smell, taste, and feel.