February 2018

Plant Science to the Rescue

Research on plant microbiomes and viruses could save our food supply

Features

How Manipulating the Plant Microbiome Could Improve Agriculture

Researchers Learn from Plant Viruses to Protect Crops

Next-Generation Exoskeletons Help Patients Move

Contributors

Contributors

Editorial

An Enduring Partnership

Speaking of Science

Ten-Minute Sabbatical

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Caught on Camera

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Researchers Cryopreserve Coral Sperm

Researchers Catalog Earth’s Microbiome

Scientists Unite to Save “Monkey Island” After Hurricane Maria

Graduate Student Identifies Dozens of New Fly Species

Modus Operandi

Detecting Protein Clumps

The Literature

Plant Cell Walls Can Control Growth in the Dark

War Dance of the Honeybee

A Newly Identified Photoenzyme Helps Algae Pump Out Fuel

Profiles

Planting Independence: A Profile of Katayoon Dehesh

Scientist to Watch

Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi Investigates How Pathogens Invade Plant Roots

Lab Tools

Virtual Reality May Revolutionize Brain Science

Mapping Brain Proteins

Careers

How to Make Scientists into Better Peer Reviewers

Reading Frames

Agricultural Technology Can Save Humanity from Starvation (Again)

Foundations

A Brush with Inheritance, 1878

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From Water Bears to Grizzly Bears: Unusual Animal Models

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Scaling Lentiviral Vector Manufacturing for Optimal Productivity

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Putting Pathogens to the Test with Wastewater Surveillance

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Generating High-Quality mRNA for In Vivo Delivery with lipid nanoparticles

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