March 2013's selection of notable quotes
Patients are sidestepping clinical research and using themselves as guinea pigs to test new treatments for fatal diseases. Will they hurt themselves, or science?
Scientist? Filmmaker? Alexis Gambis welcomes both labels.
A new play explores the mind of the father of modern physics through his interactions—factual and imagined—with a curmudgeonly colleague.
The first human trial of a treatment using induced pluripotent stem cells has received conditional approval from an institutional review board in Japan.
The group that last year claimed to have sequenced the Sasquatch genome has finally published its data in a brand new “journal,” and geneticists are not impressed.
A new journal that publishes peer review comments alongside its manuscripts goes live.
In an upcoming hearing, the US Supreme Court will decide on whether police can take DNA samples from suspects who have not been convicted.
Why so few scientists make the leap to policy-making positions, and why more should give it a try
Tuberculosis bacteria find shelter from drugs and the body’s defenses in bone marrow stem cells.