The Scientist

  • Epigenetics Paper Raises Questions

    Epigenetics Paper Raises Questions

    GENETICS publishes a commentary criticizing a Nature Neuroscience paper claiming that mice can inherit smell sensitivities that their parents acquired during life. GENETICS publishes a commentary criticizing a Nature Neuroscience paper claiming that mice can inherit smell sensitivities that their parents acquired during life. GENETICS publishes a commentary criticizing a Nature Neuroscience paper claiming that…

  • Fecal Pill Treats Gut Infection

    Fecal Pill Treats Gut Infection

    A handful of patients suffering from recurrent Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) experienced a cessation of the violent diarrhea that is a hallmark of the disease after ingesting frozen, encapsulated feces from healthy, unrelated volunteers.

  • Next Generation: Fat-Targeted Gene Knockdown

    Next Generation: Fat-Targeted Gene Knockdown

    A small peptide helps a silencing construct home in on the adipocytes of obese mice.