Inside Millions of Invisible Droplets, Potential Superbug Killers Grow
New research has created microscopic antibiotic factories in droplets that measure a trillionth of liter in volume. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Caffeine Boosts Bees’ Focus and Helps Them Learn
By associating caffeinated sugar water and a target scent, researchers teach bumblebees to stay on task -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
‘Inflammation Clock’ Can Reveal Body’s Biological Age
Using machine learning, researchers created a tool that might help doctors improve people’s healthy lifespan -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Deleted Coronavirus Genome Sequences Trigger Scientific Intrigue
Partial SARS-CoV-2 sequences from early outbreaks in Wuhan were removed from a U.S. government database by the scientists who deposited them -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Cancer Clues Found in Gene behind ‘Lemon Frost’ Gecko Color
Research has solved a macabre mystery, and the finding could one day help efforts to catch human melanomas earlier -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
What Is CRISPR, and Why Is It So Important?
This revolutionary gene-editing system has taken science by storm. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Why Scientists Tweak Lab Viruses to Make Them More Contagious
Some “gain of function” studies explore how a dangerous pathogen might cross species barriers to start an outbreak. They are not without controversy. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Immune Havoc of COVID-19
The virus flourishes by undermining the body’s chemical defense system -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
DeepMind’s AI Makes Gigantic Leap in Solving Protein Structures
Google’s deep-learning program for determining the 3-D shapes of proteins stands to transform biology, scientists say -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Viruses Can Help Us as Well as Harm Us
Experts are figuring out how to exploit the 380 trillion viruses that make up the human virome -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Nobelist Talks CRISPR Uses
New chemistry Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna talks about various applications of the gene editing tool CRISPR. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
New Nobel Laureate Talks Today’s Virology
Charles Rice, who today shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus, talked about how rapidly research now occurs compared with his early work. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Discovery of Hepatitis C Snags Nobel Prize in Medicine
Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice share the award for identifying the virus behind the blood-borne liver disease -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Dinosaurs Got Cancer Too
Researchers seeking evidence for cancer in dinosaurs found it in a collection of bones at an Alberta paleontology museum. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Deadly Spread of Some Cancers May Be Driven by a Common Mouth Microbe
An ordinary bacterium can trigger changes in some primary tumors that lead to dangerous metastasis -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Deadly Spread of Some Cancers May Be Driven by a Common Mouth Microbe
An ordinary bacterium can trigger changes in some primary tumors that lead to dangerous metastasis -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com