The law has always viewed living human beings—and the tissues, organs, and other body parts derived from them—as special and different from the nonliving, nonhuman. But bioscientific advances are nibbling away at classical legal boundaries that form the bedrock of the normative structures on which societies are based. Recent developments such as in human genetics, neuroscience, and cell and…
Superstretchy skin gives the Gans’s egg-eater the widest gape–to–head size ratio of any known animal
Xenon inhalation modulates microglial responses in mice and is a potential therapeutic agent for treating Alzheimer’s disease.
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“It’s a lesson I wish I’d learned before starting grad school,” this professor writes
How IRF transcription factors orchestrate epigenetic reprogramming in macrophages is revealed.
About 1.5 million years ago, early members of our genus Homo walked along a lakeshore in Africa within hours of another kind of hominin, likely…
DC–T cell interactions during priming influence CD8+ T cell fate, and DCs subsequently sustain T cell responses against cancer.
Across hundreds of cities and three decades, there is no impact of a mayor’s partisan affiliation on crime and arrest rates.
In the 4 June 2010 issue, Science published the Report “FCHo proteins are nucleators of clathrin-mediated endocytosis” by W. M. Henne et al. (1). The…
