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Cooking Up Creative Solutions
By H. Steven Wiley | May 1, 2012
More collaborators and more data are the key ingredients.
Antibiotics in the Animals We Eat
By Bonnie M. Marshall and Stuart B. Levy | April 1, 2012
Low-dose antibiotics in animal feed fuel drug-resistance in human infectious diseases.
Reading Into the Future
By Richard Smith | April 1, 2012
Will traditional scientific journals follow newspapers into oblivion?
One Year On
By Nick Beresford and Jordi Vives i Batlle | March 1, 2012
Some thoughts about the ecological fallout from Fukushima
Never Say Never
By H. Steven Wiley | February 1, 2012
Novel observations can sometimes be correct for unexpected reasons.
Learning by Doing
By Sarah L. Simmons | February 1, 2012
Having freshmen perform research doesn’t just improve undergraduate learning, it convinces more students to become science majors.
An Evolving Science for an Evolving Time
By Colin D. Butler | January 1, 2012
Twenty-first century challenges to the public health of all the world’s populations require forward-looking commitments from epidemiologists.
From Test Tube to Hypodermic Needle
By James V. Parker and P. Michael Conn | December 1, 2011
A prescription for educating the public on the value of using animals in medical research
Avoiding Animal Testing
By Andrew Rowan | December 1, 2011
Advances in cell-culture technologies are paving the way to the complete elimination of animals from the laboratory.
Vive la Différence
By H. Steven Wiley | September 1, 2011
Measuring how individual cells differ from each other will enhance the predictive power of biology.
