What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes
What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes
Doctors culture a custom-made trachea from plastic fibers and human cells, and successfully implant it into a child who was born without the organ.
In Chapter 4, “Darwin’s Barnacles, Agassiz’s Jellyfish,” author Christoph Irmscher describes his subject’s obsession with marine organisms.
Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin’s unheralded codiscoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection, found inspiration in the specimens he collected on his travels.
Research Associate, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Age: 27
Sorting out T-cell functional and phenotypic heterogeneity depends on studying single cells.
American naturalist Louis Agassiz had a zeal for collecting that encouraged a nation to engage with nature.
Viral infections of the central nervous system may trigger cytokines that induce seizures.
Researchers are using modern experimental tools to probe the mysterious molecular pathways that lead to premature labor and birth.