The Way Parasitoid Wasps Lay Their Eggs Has Inspired Horror Films

What are parasitoid wasps? Learn about these wasps that have a gruesome but fascinating way of surviving.

E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm

The decision comes after a Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to slash the federal work force and dismantle agencies.

Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature’s research papers

Nature - From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science.

Reimagining Glucometer: From Diabetes Monitoring to Cancer Therapeutics Detection

Creation of a point-of-care therapeutics sensor using protein engineering, electrochemical sensing...

Nature Communications - Low-cost point-of-care sensors are vital for precision medicine. Here, the authors have repurposed a glucometer for breast cancer therapeutic detection capable of sensing...

Targeted Transcriptional Activation Using a CRISPR-Associated Transposon System

Synthetic perturbation of gene expression is central to our ability to reliably uncover genotype–phenotype relationships in microbes. Here, we present a novel transcription activation strategy that...

Bacterial biosensors: The future of analyte detection

Scientists can do some nifty things with microbes, including engineering bacterial cells to sense and signal the presence of specific compounds. These microbial whole-cell biosensors have numerous...