Browsing: Lens_biology

The amazing underwater athletes are rewriting the science of the body.

A survivor’s story is about to change.

The idea that some species are relics that have stopped evolving is finally going extinct.

A roving meditation on nature, literature, and the joy of collecting flies.

In January, the pharmaceutical company Roche paid more than a billion dollars to buy about half of a small company called Foundation Medicine. Foundation has not invented any new drugs or life-saving devices. Most insurance companies won’t pay for its main product, and like a lot of biotech companies, it loses money. The big bucks are […]

How habits of speech can shape our thoughts.

Suspended animation is becoming a life-saving medical procedure.

Suspended animation is becoming a life-saving medical procedure.

I don’t want to surrender to a lottery. But will I regret not playing?

By gently squeezing maladjusted foals, veterinary researcher John Madigan recreates the experience of traveling through the birth canal, lowering the levels of certain neurosteroids and “waking up” the young horses.Joe Proudman / UC Davis As a toxicologist at the University of California, Davis, Isaac Pessah focuses on how different molecules regulate human brain function and […]