Bringing Good Things To Life (Science)? Infiltrating ductal carcinoma tissue labeled with both H&E (hematoxylin and eosin) staining and clinical biomarkers. Image courtesy of GE Global Research A series of purchases is turning General Electric, the world's second largest company, into a major supplier of life sciences equipment. By Brendan Borrell Related Articles Vaccine Dreams Gee Whiz, that's GE! Seeing faster, seeing smar

Vaccine Dreams GE and NovaVax team up to create a portable vaccine factory that is faster, cheaper By Brendan Borrell Related Articles Bringing Good Things To Life (Science)? Gee Whiz, that's GE! Seeing faster, seeing smarter Slideshow: GE lights up life science Each year, a new strain of seasonal influenza is born in Southeast Asia and sweeps across the globe to North America and Europe, infecting between 3 million and 4 million people annual

Hazel Barton with a gypsum formation. Credit: Courtesy of Dave Bunnell / Under Earth Images" />Hazel Barton with a gypsum formation. Credit: Courtesy of Dave Bunnell / Under Earth Images Three years ago, Hazel Barton, a biologist from Northern Kentucky University, traveled to southern Venezuela to star in an Animal Planet documentary entitled "The Real Lost World." While there, she visited Mount Roraima, the largest

Slideshow: Dandruff genomics The images behind Proctor & Gamble's Thomas Dawson and his goal to put more biology in every bottle of shampoo courtesy of P&G Beauty var FO = { movie:"http://images.the-scientist.com/supplementary/flash/54595/54595.swf", width:"520", height:"600", majorversion:"8", build:"0", xi:"false"}; UFO.create(FO, "ufoDemo"); Please download the Adobe Flash Player to view this content: Related Articles: Dandruff G

At Procter & Gamble, Thomas Dawson has led the charge to put more biology in every bottle of shampoo.

Stopping the Cane Toad When Australian scientists failed to find a virus to control one of the most insidious invasive species, they decided to build one. Is it worth the risk? By Brendan Borrell All photos by Brendan Borrell Related Articles: 1 "Everyone was very excited about that," he says, because it meant that there might be a pathogen that would kill the cane toad and only the cane toad. In 1993, CSIRO received another $2 million AUD ($1.4

Slideshow: The Cane Toad When Australian scientists failed to find a virus to control one of the most insidious invasive species, they decided to build one. Is it worth the risk? All photos by Brendan Borrell In our April issue, Brendan Borrell traveled to Australia to chronicle scientists' efforts to design a virus that stops the cane toad. View this slideshow for a first-hand look at what it's like to try to stop one of the world's most insidious invasive spec

A flying fox Credit: Right: courtesy of Australian Animal Health Laboratory" />A flying fox Credit: Right: courtesy of Australian Animal Health Laboratory Taking a saliva sample from the world's largest bat is not easy under ordinary circumstances, but obtaining that same sample from a SARS-infected flying fox — while using a 4-foot cotton swab and wearing a pressurized biosafety suit with double-layered rub

Philip Larkin examines the last of his transgenic poppies growing in a greenhouse at the Black Mountain Laboratory in Canberra, Australia. Credit: Courtesy of Brendan Borrell" />Philip Larkin examines the last of his transgenic poppies growing in a greenhouse at the Black Mountain Laboratory in Canberra, Australia. Credit: Courtesy of Brendan Borrell Out of a dozen transgenic plants in Philip Larkin's greenhouse at Black Mountain Laboratory in Canberra, only two sho

Lacayote squash Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Andres" />Lacayote squash Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Andres Last fall, Thomas Andres was wandering around New York City's Chinatown when he happened upon the subject of his doctoral dissertation: the lacayote, Cucurbita ficifolia, a South American squash rarely sold in the United States. He was happy to shell out $6 for the mottled green gourd. Twenty-five years ago, he had dreamed of discovering its wild ancestor on some scrubby hillside in

Joshua Tewksbury (left) hangs off the back of his truck as it rumbles from one field site to the next in southern Bolivia. At night, the team will be scanning these same roads for nightjars. Credit: Courtesy of Brendan Borrell" />Joshua Tewksbury (left) hangs off the back of his truck as it rumbles from one field site to the next in southern Bolivia. At night, the team will be scanning these same roads for nightjars. Credit: Courtesy of Brendan Borrell Ecologist Joshua Tewksbury and h

Proponents of biological "theory of everything" call for retraction of a critical paper