Craig Venter, towering figure in genetics who led the race to decode the human genome

Craig Venter, the molecular biologist who has died aged 79, was one of the most colourful and controversial characters in the ...
Investopedia

Simple Random Sampling: 6 Basic Steps With Examples

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
Nature

Genome pioneer Craig Venter dies: here’s how he transformed science

Venter redrew the boundaries of biology — sequencing DNA at unprecedented speed, engineering synthetic life and charting ...
The New York Times

This Is What Will Ruin Public Opinion Polling for Good

Dr. Weatherby is the director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University. Dr. Recht is a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. See ...
eLife

Are interphylum spiralian relationships resolvable?

This important study probes the long-standing failure to resolve evolutionary relationships between the classical "spiralian" taxa - i.e., annelids, molluscs, brachiopods, platyhelminths and ...
eLife

Fast-ripples are emergent properties of neuronal networks

This valuable study addressed a key question in epilepsy research: whether the recordings of very fast oscillations in the brain (>250Hz, fast ripples) reflect underlying pathology or might be a ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Create the First Detailed ‘Smell Map’ of Odor Sensors in the Mouse Nose—and Sniff Out Some Surprising Discoveries

In two new studies, researchers used genetic techniques to upend a longstanding assumption that nerve cells with scent ...
EurekAlert!

Revisiting the strain of calorie restriction in mice

For more than a century, calorie restriction (CR), reducing energy intake without malnutrition, has been one of the most reproducible interventions for extending lifespan in laboratory animals. Yet ...