Researchers studying differences in how individuals respond to stress are finding that genes are malleable and environments can be deterministic.
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In an essay entitled "Nurture, Nature, and the Stress That is Life," neurobiologists Darlene Francis and Daniela Kaufer envision a future where science moves past the nature vs. nurture debate in considering differences in human behavioral responses to stress.
Stretching muscle cells as they grow helps promote the expression of growth factors.
Statistician Paul Meier, who championed the random assignment of patients to treatment groups in clinical trials, changed the way the researchers test experimental drugs.
A new microfluidics chip lets researchers analyze the nucleic acids of 300 individual cells simultaneously.
A prolific cardiac research scientist, Bernadine Healy revolutionized the study and treatment of disease in women.
Healthy mice are born from germ cell precursors grown in vitro.
The Nobel Prize winner who discovered the gene that encodes the major histocompatibility complex passes away at age 90.
John Marburger became a lightning rod for criticism that the Bush administration had politicized climate change science and human embryonic stem cell research.
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