October 2012

Cooperation, not competition, is the way forward.

October 2012's selection of notable quotes

Mass spec plus novel software equals dynamic views into the chemical lives of microbes.

A new assay shows that cells use lamellipodia as their primary mechanism to seal up holes in epithelial tissue.

Researchers reveal a new pathway of synaptic modulation in the hippocampus exclusive to females.

An HIV drug can bind to and alter the function of an immune molecule, causing a dangerous reaction in patients with a particular allele.

Unwilling to accept the finality of terminal differentiation, Helen Blau has honed techniques that showcase the flexibility of cells to adopt different identities.

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

Advice on authoring a textbook, popular nonfiction, or even a novel

The biological and social ramifications of skin pigmentation are too often ignored by scientists, teachers, and the general public.

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

Regenesis and The Half-Life of Facts

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

Long non-protein-coding RNA (lncRNA) sequences are often transcribed from the opposite, or antisense, strand of a protein coding gene. In the past few years, research has shown that these lncRNAs play a number of regulatory roles in the cell. For exa

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