Embryonic Eavesdropping

Preprints are likely here to stay. The press, the public, and the research community must adapt to this relatively recent model of scientific publishing if we are to extract its benefits while avoiding its pitfalls.

Take a break from the bench to puzzle and peruse.

Preprints can be valuable additions to the scientific literature. But we must start seeing them as perishable commodities rather than akin to peer-reviewed, published studies.

A technique that reversibly bundles tagged cargo into artificial membraneless compartments gives scientists the ability to switch cell processes on and off.

The Northwestern University researcher studies how adaptive immune cells influence neurodegenerative disease.

Scientists face the ramifications of the country’s departure from the European Union, from delays in laboratory supplies to difficulties hiring international students and faculty.

The idea that minds and consciousness might be generated by the nervous system alone is false.

How the pungent odor that occurs after a light rain became a well-studied phenomenon

Engineered cells produce proteins that allow scientists to turn cellular processes on and off.

Scientists are still trying to paint a complete picture, but it’s clear that these gene expression regulators have an unusual evolutionary history.

Across the tree of life, animals use sound and other vibrations to glean valuable sensory information about their environments even before they are born.