Georgetown University announced the three inaugural winners of the Magis Prize, which awards $100,000 in research funding and two semesters of leave to associate professors who demonstrate exceptional ...

In the summer of 1960, doctors extracted “crimson sludge” from 6-year-old Barbara Lowry’s bones and gave it to her twin. That surgery, one of the first successful bone marrow transplants, belied the ...

Overall, I find Gary Freeman's review of the book I edited, Defining Biology, (The Scientist, November 17, 1986) to be a reasonable one that endorses the value of these essays from the 1890s. I do ...

The autonomy of biology as a natural science / Francisco J. Ayala -- The model of open systems : beyond molecular biology / Ludwig von Bertalanffy -- Electronic mobility in biological processes / ...

From ‘proactive aggression’ to our ‘predilection’ for polygamy, an engaging study of the traits that have influenced civilisation I blame Yuval Noah Harari. Since the Israeli historian’s bestselling ...

To teach any biological science today is to steer a delicate course between science as history and science as research. The five authors of Molecular Biology of the Gene span the iconic past to the ...