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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Maximizing Lentivirus Recovery

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Unraveling Complex Biology with Advanced Multiomics Technology

Unraveling Complex Biology with Five-Dimensional Multiomics

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Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

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Seeing and Sorting with Confidence

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Products

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Waters Enhances Alliance iS HPLC System Software, Setting a New Standard for End-to-End Traceability and Data Integrity 

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Agilent Unveils the Next Generation in LC-Mass Detection: The InfinityLab Pro iQ Series

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Agilent Announces the Enhanced 8850 Gas Chromatograph

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