Contributors
| March 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the March 2013 issue of The Scientist.
| March 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the March 2013 issue of The Scientist.
Patients are sidestepping clinical research and using themselves as guinea pigs to test new treatments for fatal diseases. Will they hurt themselves, or science?
During development, communication between organs determines their relative final size.
The first human trial of a treatment using induced pluripotent stem cells has received conditional approval from an institutional review board in Japan.
New research adds to an emerging picture of the changes that global warming and thinning ice are wreaking on the marine ecosystems at the top of the world.
Scenes from a research trip, where researchers peered beneath the ice to shine a light on the emerging picture of a changing Arctic Ocean
In a pond, more amphibian species mean decreased chances of disease spread.
Scientists have identified the sticky substance that is damaging the feathers of hundreds seabirds washed ashore in England as an additive for lubricant oils.
New amphibian species are being discovered at an exciting rate, yet they are also the vertebrates most at risk of extinction.
Tuberculosis bacteria find shelter from drugs and the body’s defenses in bone marrow stem cells.