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Engineering the Microbiome: CRISPR Leads the Way
Mariella Bodemeier Loayza Careaga, PhD | Mar 15, 2024 | 10+ min read
Scientists have genetically modified isolated microbes for decades. Now, using CRISPR, they intend to target entire microbiomes.
Intelligent Redesign
Ishani Ganguli | Aug 1, 2006 | 7 min read
FEATURELab Design   Main image: © Getty ImagesSmaller images: Justin MacNochie Photography/SmithgroupWith billions being spent on new labs and renovations, do shinier labs really make for better science? BY ISHANI GANGULIARTICLE EXTRASRelated Articles:Lab Rehab Redesign and the Bottom Line It's Easy Going GreenAnatomy of an energy-sustainable lab renovationWeb Extra:Lab Rehab: Laying out other options
Capsule Reviews
Bob Grant | May 1, 2014 | 3 min read
Madness and Memory, Promoting the Planck Club, The Carnivore Way, and The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
Stalking Sharks
Jef Akst | Aug 30, 2012 | 3 min read
Researchers monitor the movement of the Pacific’s largest predators and share the information with the world in real time.
How Interconnected Is Life in the Ocean?
Catherine Offord | Nov 1, 2019 | 10+ min read
To help create better conservation and management plans, researchers are measuring how marine organisms move between habitats and populations.
An Ocean of Viruses
Joshua S. Weitz and Steven W. Wilhelm | Jul 1, 2013 | 10+ min read
Viruses abound in the world’s oceans, yet researchers are only beginning to understand how they affect life and chemistry from the water’s surface to the sea floor.
Ten-Minute Sabbatical
The Scientist Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | 2 min read
Take a break from the bench to puzzle and peruse.
How Live Capture Changed Scientific Views of Killer Whales
Jason Colby | Jul 1, 2018 | 3 min read
Although highly controversial now, keeping orcas in captivity helped transform popular and scientific conceptions of the marine mammal from an unfeeling killer to a complex, intelligent animal.
Capsule Reviews
Bob Grant | Apr 1, 2016 | 3 min read
Lab Girl, The Most Perfect Thing, Half-Earth, and Cosmosapiens
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Altruism in Birds? Magpies Have Outwitted Scientists by Helping Each Other Remove Tracking Devices
Dominique Potvin | Feb 22, 2022 | 4 min read
It was the first time a bird has removed a tracking device, and the second time a bird species showed cooperative “rescue” behavior.

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