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Spot the Moth
By Cristina Luiggi | May 1, 2012
It’s a well-known story: The peppered moth’s ancestral typica phenotype is white with dark speckles. In the decades following the…
Telomere Basics
By Rodrigo Calado and Neal Young | May 1, 2012
Telomeres are repetitive, noncoding sequences that cap the ends of linear chromosomes. They consist of hexameric nucleotide sequences (TTAGGG in…
Designing Transition-State Inhibitors
By Vern L. Schramm | May 1, 2012
A transition-state mimic has the power to bind an enzyme at its tipping point as strongly as any available inhibitor…
Telltale Tortoises
By Jef Akst | April 1, 2012
Researchers are permanently marking endangered reptiles in Madagascar to keep the animals from entering the illegal wildlife trade. Read the…
The Two Faces of Metastasis
By Suling Liu, Hasan Korkaya, and Max S. Wicha | April 1, 2012
During development, the cells of an embryo change their pattern of gene expression, which allows them to detach from their…
Best Places for Postdocs, 2012
By Sabrina Richards | March 29, 2012
Postdocs at this year’s top-ranked institutions get to tackle human health and disease from every angle. Scientists at the Donald…
BeetleCam, Take Two
By Cristina Luiggi | March 15, 2012
The BeetleCam is back! And this time, it’s lion proof. The new, improved, and heavily armored version of the remote…
Coral Clones
By Hannah Waters | March 1, 2012
Coral embryos drifting in rough ocean waves are essentially naked, with no protective membrane to keep them from breaking apart…
Preserving Endangered Gametes
By Jef Akst | March 1, 2012
Pierre Comizzoli, a reproductive physiologist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, chats about his efforts to rescue endangered species from…
A Whiff of TB
By Edyta Zielinska | March 1, 2012
Chemical ecologist Max Suckling at the Institute for Plant and Food Research Ltd. and summer student Rachael Sagar use Pavlovian…
