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Who owns your cells?

Property rights get messy when DNA is involved

Biochemistry

University of Michigan

3 peer comments

Why aren't there quality controls for antibody research?

Daniel Bojar, ETH Zurich

Why fieldwork is still crucial for science research

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

Why science education for seniors is a boon for them – and for everyone else

Brianna Bibel, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

'Orphan drugs' are ascendant. What will that mean for people with rare diseases?

Tara Fernandez, Cell Biology

Trump's wall would harm unique and fragile wildlife on the California border

Christa Trexler, UC San Diego

Billionaires are rushing into biotech. Inequality is following them into science

Josh Peters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Why is it so hard for scientists to talk about leaving academia?

Prabarna Ganguly, Northeastern University

The Graduate Research Fellowship Program favors elite schools – again

Kelsey Lucas, Harvard University

A scientist responds to that 'Science' Instagram essay

Online outreach helps highlight women and people of color in the field

Gabriela Serrato Marks

Marine Geology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

I crush stalagmites from protected caves. What can I do to give back?

Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Plants are not conscious, whether you can 'sedate' them or not

Devang Mehta, University of Alberta

Creationism helped push climate skepticism into classrooms

Julia York, University of Texas at Austin

BRCA genes are more complicated than most people think

Rachel Aronoff, Molecular Microbiology

Ketogenetic dieting aids look too good to be true because they are

Kevin Pels, The Scripps Research Institute

How fieldwork on a remote, tiny island taught me to navigate family dinners

Jenny Howard, Wake Forest University

It's time to stop excluding people with disabilities from science

Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The hidden costs of fieldwork are making science less diverse

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

Artificial intelligence isn't a 'black box.' It's a key to studying the brain

Algorithms can help us see how our unconscious processes work – if we understand their language

Neuroscience

Stanford University

The Republican tax plan would hurt students and young people. We can't let it pass

Dan Samorodnitsky

The Mother's Curse: how a French king’s legacy revealed a loophole in evolution

Devang Mehta, University of Alberta

Rand Paul's bill to stop 'silly' science would stifle research, innovation, and the economy

Gregory Logan-Graf, Carnegie Mellon University

CAR-T could revolutionize cancer treatment. It can also be fatal

Kevin Pels, The Scripps Research Institute

How machine learning is helping neuroscientists understand the brain

Daniel Bear, Stanford University

Can we reverse the effects of drugs on developing brains?

Lauren Mackenzie Reynolds, McGill University

My 'basic' fruit fly research could help save lives

Gregory Logan-Graf, Carnegie Mellon University

International collaboration is the best way to understand the complexities of the brain

Maya Emmons-Bell, UC Berkeley

The psychedelic renaissance is here. Will it last this time?

To avoid the mistakes of the past, scientists and society need to open their minds

Neuroscience

Johns Hopkins University

The science Nobel Prizes are sexist, racist, and misleading. Let's rethink them

Devang Mehta, University of Alberta

Does modern neuroscience really help us understand behavior?

Danbee Kim, Champalimaud Foundation

Gonçalo Lopes, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre

Why studies that rely too much on drugs often fail to hold up

Ana Gorelova, University of Pittsburgh

Dear Harvard, Berkeley, and MIT: don't patent CRISPR

Dan Samorodnitsky

The next revolution in food is being held up by regulation

Kate Krueger, New Harvest

Why GMO labeling laws won't help US consumers make better decisions

Andrew Scarpelli, National Louis University

Scientists shouldn't be punished for being wrong

Jay Bassan, University of Toronto

This biologist believes we should embrace human gene editing

Devang Mehta, University of Alberta

Feeding the world as the climate changes will depend on genetic engineering

CRISPR and other tech could help us produce more food, but only if we drop the GMO stigma

Molecular Biology

Princeton University

Why you shouldn't worry about the bacteria in your sponges

Kevin Pels, The Scripps Research Institute

We need to change the way we think about alcoholism

David Haggerty, Indiana University School of Medicine

How Shark Week hurts the very creatures it celebrates

Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

I empathize with anti-vaxxers. Here's how flawed autism science can lead to the wrong conclusions.

David Haggerty, Indiana University School of Medicine