Doctors turn to good microbes to fight disease. Will the same strategy work with crops?
Doctors turn to good microbes to fight disease. Will the same strategy work with crops?
The rise of copulation as a vertebrate reproductive strategy may have driven crucial evolutionary change and explosive species radiation.
Searching for life beyond our teeming planet has led to some innovative collaborative approaches to generating knowledge right here at home.
Fat cells behave differently in obese individuals, causing inflammation and insulin resitance.
Long-term exposure to antibiotics from agricultural run off may encourage the evolution of soil bacteria that break down and consume the antibacterial agents.
The healing powers of maggots may lie in their secreted proteins, which restrain the human immune response.
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Adipose tissue plays an immune role in individuals of normal wieght.
In the introduction to his latest book, renowned naturalist George Schaller describes the evolving role of the field biologist through the lens of his experiences with Himalayan wildlife.
| December 1, 2012
Meet some of the people featured in the December 2012 issue of The Scientist.