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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.
Scientist to Watch: Coleen Murphy
Chandra Shekhar | Oct 1, 2006 | 2 min read
Coleen Murphy: Immersed in the Inevitable
Illustration of newly discovered mechanism allowing kinesin to “walk” down a microtubule. A green kinesin molecule with an attached yellow fluorophore is shown passing through a blue laser as it rotates step by step along a red and purple microtubule, fueled by blue ATP molecules that are hydrolyzed into orange ADP and phosphate groups.
High-Resolution Microscope Watches Proteins Strut Their Stuff
Holly Barker, PhD | Mar 31, 2023 | 3 min read
Modification on a high-resolution fluorescent microscopy technique allow researchers to track the precise movements of motor proteins. 
Papers to watch
The Scientist Staff | Jan 1, 2006 | 1 min read
Credit: Getty Images" /> Credit: Getty Images M.T. Croft et al., "Algae acquire vitamin B12 through a symbiotic relationship with bacteria," Nature, 438:90?3, Nov. 3, 2005. Besides presenting key data on why [B12] is needed in some algae and not in others, this paper brings to light a ? type of interaction between algae and bacteria that could be of considerable ecological importance. Daniel Vaulot National
Infographic: Watching Evolution in Real Time
Jef Akst | Apr 30, 2017 | 1 min read
Guppies transplanted between different communities in Trinidadian streams evolved in response to changes in predation threat in just a few generations.
Racing Ecology
Maria Anderson | May 9, 2004 | 1 min read
Lee Talbot, an environmental science professor at Virginia's George Mason University, has been racing – in a formula car, oval-track sports racer, or vintage roadster – since 1948. At age 73, he shows no signs of slowing down. "I've been winning well over half the events I've entered, and this is against people who are on average 50 years younger than I am!"His wife and two sons travel to North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia to watch him compete in what he describes as an enforced
Citation Records Indicate Leaders In Ecology Research
The Scientist Staff | Feb 6, 1994 | 6 min read
Editor's Note: The newsletter Science Watch, published by the Philadelphia-based Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), last year decided to devote more attention to a research arena that, clearly, was attracting more attention among scientists worldwide: ecology and environmental science. After analyzing ISI's Science Indicators Database, the newsletter published last November (Science Watch, 4[9]:7-8, 1993) its first-ever l
What Price Ecological restoration?
Paddy Woodworth | Apr 1, 2006 | 9 min read
FEATURERestoring Natural Capital In putting a price tag on endangered species and degraded ecosystems, ecologists and economists have joined forces to formulate a new rationale for environmental issues: restoring natural capitalĀ© Erich Schlegel/Dallas Morning News/CorbisBY PADDY WOODWORTHEcological restoration is expensive. The United States government is slated to spend almost $8 billion restoring parts of the Florida Evergla
Fireflies lighting up a tree at night
Firefly Tourism Sparks Calls for Sustainable Practices
Asher Jones | Jun 1, 2021 | 5 min read
More and more people are traveling around the world to watch the luminous displays of fireflies, but tourism-related light pollution and habitat degradation threaten to snuff out the insects at some locations.  
Tagged for Cleansing
Michele Pagano | Jun 1, 2009 | 10+ min read
Tagged for Cleansing Not just the cell's trash and recycling center, the ubiquitin system controls complex cellular pathways with elegant simplicity and precision. By Michele Pagano have always gravitated toward order. I may even take it a bit too far according to friends who liken my office to a museum. However, I like to think it not a compulsion, but a Feng Shui approach to life. With this need for order, I may have been better suited to

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