Beaks did it for Darwin. Now, monitoring real-time evolution of bacteria that infects finch eyes reveals repeated, rapid evolution of an emerging avian pathogen in backyards throughout the U.S.
Bias in preclinical research; medical marijuana for kids; a swath of microbial genomes; plastic ocean habitats; rethinking scientific evaluation
A geneticist-turned-filmmaker is making a movie set in Columbia University’s famous Fly Room, where the foundations for modern genetics were laid.
The drug has brought relief to children suffering from cancer and other serious ailments, but getting access is often limited by considerable regulatory hurdles.
Researchers analyze smoke generated during surgical tumor removal to distinguish healthy and diseased tissues in real time.
Editor accused of fraud leaves post; the good and the bad of gut microbiota; bacterial gene shuffle; legal restrictions hamper illicit drug research; antibodies and autism
Particular microbes in the colons of HIV patients may worsen disease progression.
Oral administration of a cocktail of bacteria derived from the human gut reduces colitis and allergy-invoked diarrhea in mice.
Are the international drug laws the worst impediment to scientific inquiry since the Catholic Church banned the telescope?
Bacteria-killing antibiotics might also damage a person’s tissues.
The nationwide experiment will initially include around 100,000 volunteers.
After implantation, the tissue developed blood vessels and became integrated into neuronal networks in the animals’ brains.
Researchers deliver small interfering RNAs loaded into nanoparticles into the ears of adult guinea pigs to regenerate hair cells damaged by noise.
The US Senate narrowly approved the politician, who does not have a science background.
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