A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research
Researchers studying differences in how individuals respond to stress are finding that genes are malleable and environments can be deterministic.
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.
Introducing the winners of our second annual "Labbies" awards
September 1, 2011
Meet some of the people featured in the September 2011 issue of The Scientist.
Stretching muscle cells as they grow helps promote the expression of growth factors.
A new microfluidics chip lets researchers analyze the nucleic acids of 300 individual cells simultaneously.
Healthy mice are born from germ cell precursors grown in vitro.