Articles by Hayley Dunning

Apps and software for improving lab productivity

Successive awakening of soil microbes drives a huge pulse of CO₂ following the first rain after a dry summer.

Large RNA-protein packets use a novel mechanism to escape the cell nucleus.

Researcher salaries continue to buck the trend of the millennium’s first decade, remaining flat or even declining across most life science disciplines.

Comparing the protein profile of a 500-year-old Inca mummy to modern humans reveals an active lung infection prior to sacrifice.

Preserved remains from the Andes yield clues about infectious diseases.

Salinella salve, an organism described as a single layer of cells, ciliated on both inner and outer surfaces and surrounding…

Laboratory-raised populations of dung beetles reveal a mother's extragenetic influence on the physiques of her sons.

A unique organism sighted only once, more than a century ago, could shed light on the evolution of multicellularity—if it ever actually existed.

A dock dislodged by 2011's Japanese tsunami washes ashore in Oregon, posing an invasive species threat, but also serving as an unprecedented natural experiment in open-ocean dispersal.

Senior Research Fellow, Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, Age: 34

The brain’s phagocytes follow an ATP bread trail laid down by calcium waves to the site of damage.

Mimicking a host-cell histone protein offers flu a sneaky tactic to suppress immune response.

Researchers create early stage sperm cells from induced pluripotent stem cells, raising hopes that infertile men could be fathers.

The Office of Research integrity sanctions a Joslin Diabetes Center researcher for fudging data in retracted papers.