Issue | November 2012 | Fertile Ground | The Scientist Magazine®

Cover Story

Coming to Terms

Anna Ajduk and Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz | Nov 1, 2012 | 10+ min read

New noninvasive methods of selecting the most viable embryo could revolutionize in vitro fertilization.

Features

Omega-3s: Fishing for a Mechanism

Ethan J. Anderson and David A. Taylor | Nov 1, 2012 | 10+ min read

Despite abundant evidence supporting their ability to help prevent and treat cardiovascular disease, the therapeutic effectiveness of fish oil–derived fatty acids remains controversial.

Life Sciences Salary Survey 2012

Hayley Dunning | Nov 1, 2012 | 6 min read

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

Contributors

Meet some of the people featured in the November 2012 issue of The Scientist.

Editorial

Long and Rocky Roads

From basic research to beneficial therapies

Speaking of Science

November 2012's selection of notable quotes

Notebook

Dolled-Up Turtles

Borrowing techniques from nail and hair salons, researchers have devised a method to tag small, previously untrackable sea turtles.

Chocolate and Cheese

Taking gastronomy to the molecular level creates unprecedented flavor combos.

A Celebrated Symposium

A conference, started 10 years ago partly as a disease ecologist’s birthday party, has become one of the most valued meetings in the field.

Pneu-mummy-a

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

Critic at Large

Little Fish in a Big Pond

Continued overfishing of forage fish such as sardines and herring can result in devastating ecological and economic outcomes.

Military Mind Wars

How neuroscience research can inform military counterintelligence tactics, and the moral responsibilities that accompany such research

Modus Operandi

Timing Turnover

Two-tone fluorescent tags track the movement and life span of proteins within living cells.

The Literature

Viral Skeleton

A newly discovered family of tubulins—members of the cytoskeleton—encoded by bacteriophages plays a role in arranging the location of DNA within virus’s bacterial host.