August 2018

Conscious Rodents?

The complex ethics of transplanting human brain organoids into rats and mice

Features

Replication Failures Highlight Biases in Ecology and Evolution Science

Umbrella Species: Conservation’s Poster Children

As Brain Organoids Mature, Ethical Questions Arise

CRISPR Inches Toward the Clinic

Reading Frames

Lessons from Biosphere 2

Lab Tools

How to Track Metabolites in Tissues Using NMR

Profiles

The Cell’s Integrated Circuit: A Profile of Lucy Shapiro

Foundations

From Railroad Tracks to Racetracks, 1870s

Scientist To Watch

Heather Massey Respects Water

Notebook

Bacterial Genetics Could Help Researchers Block Interplanetary Contamination

The Superpowers of Genetically Modified Pigs

Scientists Can’t Agree on What’s Making Pistachio Trees Sick

Drones Are Changing the Face of Ecology

Do Electric Fish Dream in Zaps?

The Literature

How Ants Make Collective Decisions

Oxytocin Makes Time Fly

These Molecules Zipper Embryos Closed

Modus Operandi

Ready, Set, Glow

Careers

Life Scientists Cut Down on Plastic Waste

Critic at Large

Opinion: Learning from Immunotherapy’s Recent Failures

Editorial

Officially Intelligent

Speaking of Science

Ten-Minute Sabbatical

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Scaling Lentiviral Vector Manufacturing for Optimal Productivity

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