| November 15, 2017
An open letter from hundreds of faculty members in the U.S. and abroad declares they won’t encourage students to pursue education or careers there.
The 44-year-old patient has Hunter syndrome, which doctors hope to treat using zinc finger nucleases.
A combination gene-and-cell therapy has given a boy with a grievous skin disease a new lease on life, and has resolved a dermatology debate to boot.
Asprosin—involved in a rare disease called neonatal progeroid syndrome—targets neurons to stimulate appetite, and blocking the hormone wards off weight gain in rodents.
Andean highlander genomes possess cardiovascular-related variants, while populations from other regions evolved different solutions to manage the lack of oxygen.
Advances in single-cell technologies have revealed vast differences between cells once thought to be in the same category, calling into question how we define cell type in the first place.
Meet some of the people featured in the November 2017 issue of The Scientist.
Investigations into cases of wrongdoing by professors are increasingly in the public eye. But are colleges and universities doing enough to deal with the problem?
Recent advances in single-cell omics and other techniques are revealing variation at genomic, epigenomic, transcriptomic, and posttranscriptomic levels.
A four-time winner of the USA Memory Championship is helping scientists understand how the brain works.
The prominent researcher has been put on administrative leave pending an investigation into unspecified allegations.
The 20-year project calls into question the conventional wisdom about the role plants will play in mitigating future climate change.
The US Senate narrowly approved the politician, who does not have a science background.
Researchers deliver small interfering RNAs loaded into nanoparticles into the ears of adult guinea pigs to regenerate hair cells damaged by noise.
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