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Ig Nobels Honor Amusing Research
Jyoti Madhusoodanan
| Sep 22, 2014
| 2 min read
This year’s winners include those who’ve studied how dogs respond to magnetic fields, and the health risks of pet cats, among other things.
A Journey Into the Brain
Danielle Gerhard, PhD
| Mar 22, 2024
| 10+ min read
With the help of directed evolution, scientists inch closer to developing viral vectors that can cross the human blood-brain barrier to deliver gene therapy.
Prizes Bigger than the Nobel
Shawna Williams
| Oct 5, 2017
| 3 min read
The Nobel Prize may garner the most attention, but there are other biomedical awards at least as lucrative.
Tag! Purifying Proteins with Affinity Chromatography
Aileen Constans(aconstans@the-scientist.com)
| Feb 27, 2005
| 6 min read
What is now a standard protein laboratory technique began as an act of desperation.
Those We Lost in 2019
Ashley Yeager
| Dec 30, 2019
| 6 min read
The scientific community said goodbye to Sydney Brenner, Paul Greengard, Patricia Bath, and a number of other leading researchers this year.
How Time Is Encoded in Memories
Catherine Offord
| May 1, 2020
| 10+ min read
Rats and equations help researchers develop a theory of how our brains keep track of when events took place.
Remembering Those We Lost in 2021
Lisa Winter
| Dec 23, 2021
| 5 min read
As the year draws to a close, we look back on researchers we bid farewell to, and the contributions they made to their respective fields.
Modifying Memories During Sleep
Anna Azvolinsky
| Mar 9, 2015
| 3 min read
Researchers create a link between a location and a reward in sleeping mice.
Cigarette Smoking Leads to Coke?
Jef Akst
| Nov 4, 2011
| 2 min read
Nicotine may alter the brain’s response to cocaine, supporting the idea that the legal drug may serve as a "gateway" to the use of illegal substances.
The Ears Have It
Anna Azvolinsky
| Sep 1, 2015
| 8 min read
A teaching obligation in graduate school introduced James Hudspeth to a career focused on how vertebrates sense sounds.
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