The Scientist recounts the year’s top science prize winners and top-notch scientists that passed away.
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Lloyd Old, a researcher and former administrator of two cancer research institutes, passed away this week.
After 6 months in orbit, Caenorhabditis elegans return to Earth—alive and well.
Researchers find that newts are capable of regenerating body parts well into old age.
Full Professor and Senior Research Group Leader, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases. Age: 42
Cut off a newt’s tail or a leg, or remove a lens from its eye, and it grows back. However, whether newts can continue to do this throughout their lives, or lose the ability as they get older, has remained a mystery. Now, in an experiment spanning 16
Tagging antibodies with rare earth metals instead of fluorescent molecules turns a veteran technique into a high-throughput powerhouse.
Lynn Margulis, an innovative thinker who proposed symbiosis as a major mechanism for speciation, passed away last week.
Nobel Prize winning biologist who first decoded how a triplet of nucleic acids encoded an amino acid passed away this month.
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