Factoring in Face Time

Meet some of the people featured in the June 2013 issue of The Scientist.

As new infections surface and spread, science meets the challenges with ingenuity and adaptation.

June 2013's selection of notable quotes

Highways and byways are among the man-made environmental alterations driving the evolution of animals on contemporary timescales, with implications for ecology.

Researchers use DNA from ancient tooth tartar to chart changes in the bacterial communities that have lived in human mouths for 8,000 years.

Turning cell phones into basic research tools can improve health care in the developing world.

During frogs’ hectic mass breedings, females often die. But one species appears to have found a work-around: males harvest and fertilize their partners' eggs after her death.

Research misconduct is not limited to the developed world, but few countries anywhere are responding adequately.

Publishers need to be proactive about detecting and deterring copied text.

Scientists create nontoxic pH nanosensors to assess viability of transplanted therapeutic cells.

How the study of human social interactions is helping researchers understand the spread of diseases like influenza and HIV

In the fruit fly, the ability of neural stem cells to make the full repertoire of neurons is regulated by the movement of key genes to the nuclear periphery.

Regular supplies of food for scavenger birds in Spain may not be the most effective conservation strategy, as smaller birds are bullied away.

Matching up positive and negative charges on two of its subunits may allow the TatA membrane transporter to penetrate the lipid bilayer.

Raising one evolutionary question after another, Brandon Gaut has harvested a crop of novel findings about how plant genomes evolve.

Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia. Age: 34

Continuing innovations in liquid chromatography column technology are improving the speed and separation efficiency of HPLC.

A guide to fragment-based drug discovery

Highlights from a series of three webinars on the future of genome research, held by The Scientist to celebrate 60 years of the DNA double helix

Encouraging different thought processes, even those typically classified as “abnormal,” can be a great boon to the research enterprise.

The Book of Woe, Ungifted, My Beloved Brontosaurus, and Brainwashed

A mass poisoning of 105 patients treated with an untested medication spurred Congress to empower the US Food and Drug Administration to monitor drug safety.