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Our Wonderful Age of Abundance, in 9 Striking Infographics
Technology is driving us toward an era of exhilarating freedom, economic opportunity, and the profound gift of health. 04.24.2012
Of Mice and Men and Medicines
Drugs that alleviate symptoms of psychological illness in mice often wind up producing human treatments. There is just one small problem: Their mental breakdowns look nothing like ours. 02.24.2012
#18: Genome of Vegetables Remains Active After You Eat Them
microRNAs from rice survive digestion and alter human gene expression. 12.22.2011
The Sperm Crisis: A Tough Nut to Crack
Bad food, bad genes, and monogamy are sucking the life out of human sperm. But conceptive gels and stem cells could bring some virility back. 11.08.2011
The Forrest Gump of Mice (Minus the Insipid Adages)
A simple gene switch lets rodents run and run and run. 10.26.2011
Eyes Are the Windows to the Soul; Skin Is a Window to the Brain
A personalized source of stem cells could help find safer, more effective treatments for mental disorders. 10.25.2011
How Your Tax Dollars Save Lives: Gene Therapy
Sixty years of government-funded basic research has set up a potential revolution in our approach to disease. 10.24.2011
Dawn of the BioHackers
Do-it-yourself biologists are hunting down genetic disorders and creating synthetic life-forms in garages, closets, and backyards around the world. 10.05.2011
5 Questions for the Microbial Puppet-Master
Timothy Lu gets bacteria to make enzymes that attack their own biofilms, setting them up for the kill. 09.11.2011
5 Questions for the Brain's Code-Breaker
Sheila Nirenberg hopes to cure blindness by combining an artificial eye, gene therapy in the brain, and some skillful translation between them. 08.04.2011
20 Things You Didn’t Know About... DNA
IDing crooks from the DNA in their fingerprints, the 8 percent of our genome that came from viruses, and the plant that laughs at our puny genetic endowment. 06.13.2011
Rise of the Superweeds
Profligate use of Roundup, once billed as a miracle herbicide, has generated a large and growing wave of weeds that are impervious to it. 05.12.2011
#2: First Synthetic Organism Created
04.28.2011
The Timeless and Trendy Effort to Find—or Create—the Fountain of Youth
In the quest for longer life, scientists are trying to find the genes of longevity and bottle their benefits for all. 02.07.2011
The 100 Top Science Stories of 2010
Every year DISCOVER sorts through the scientific accomplishments of the past 12 months, and assembles a list of the coolest experiments, most brilliant discoveries, and most world-changing events. As you page through the countdown to the #1 science story, we think you'll come to the same conclusion we did: 2010 was quite a year. 12.16.2010
The Genome of Your Thanksgiving Supper
The genetic sequences of the turkey, apple, potato, and other traditional Thanksgiving ingredients are providing bountiful lessons for scientists. 11.22.2010
Discover Interview: The Gene Doctor Will See You Soon
First he made a machine that can read DNA at lightning speed. Now Leroy Hood wants to reach into the genome to revolutionize medicine. 11.16.2010
8 Ways to Restore Eyesight to the Blind
Tiny telescopes, gene therapy, and more: Medical researchers are developing high-tech ways to treat blindness. 11.09.2010
Millions of Patients Will Benefit From Advances in Genetic Engineering & Stem Cell Science
Biologist Ian Wilmut on his hopes for science over the next 30 years 09.14.2010
Dinosaurs Might Soon Walk out of the Museum and Into the Lab
Jack Horner on his hopes for science over the next 30 years 09.14.2010
Genetic Medicine Goes Nano
More researchers are using nanoparticles to deliver lethal toxins specifically to cancer cells, leaving regular cells unharmed. 04.14.2010
What Makes a Stem Cell a Stem Cell?
New research points to an important chemical configuration of DNA that may help determine the range of a cell’s possible future forms. 04.08.2010
#11: The Age of Genetic Medicine Begins
After years of setbacks and failures, gene therapy begins to produce some viable cures. 01.25.2010
#27: Genetic Disease Cured Using Cellular Shell Game
By swapping some of one mother's genes for another, an offspring can end up without birth defects (but with two mothers). 01.25.2010
"Frankenfoods" That Could Feed the World
Genetically modified crops designed for industrial agriculture have given the technology a bad rap. Here are 7 transgenic plants that could help the world's hungriest and poorest people. 01.05.2010
The Banks That Prevent—Rather Than Cause—Global Crises
Seed banks put some much-needed wild vigor back into today's specialized varieties, protecting critical crops from being wiped out. 11.20.2009
The Second Coming of Gene Therapy
For years, gene therapy produced tons of hype but no results. Recently, though, new approaches have yielded its first successes: breakthrough treatments for blindness, cancer, and the deadly bubble boy disease. 09.02.2009
Evolution by Intelligent Design
Bioengineers will likely control the future of humans as a species. 02.02.2009
Is That a Dead Mouse You're Cloning?
Researchers clone living pups from long-dead, frozen rodents. 01.12.2009
#17: Cell Reprogramming Could Help Cure Diabetes—and Other Diseases
Stem-cell guru says reprogramming adult cells might actually work better. 12.19.2008
#41: A Synthetic Genome Is Built From Scratch
The art of recreating an entire bacterial genome. 12.14.2008
#46: FDA Approves Food From Cloned Animals
Meat and milk products from cloned livestock may soon hit the shelves. 12.13.2008
20 Best Brains Under 40
Young innovators are changing everything from theoretical mathematics to cancer therapy. 11.20.2008
Fighting for the Right to Clone
Stem cell and cloning guru Robert Lanza has battled the Catholic Church, the White House, and violent protesters. 08.19.2008
10 Ways Genetically Engineered Microbes Could Help Humanity
Fighting cancer, producing renewable fuels, and making your clothing glow in the dark. 08.06.2008
Fighting Cow Methane at the Source: Their Food
Genetically modified grass could be the key to reducing cow emissions. 07.08.2008
It’s Not Easy Being Seen
No need to dissect this see-through frog to learn how it works 02.05.2008
64. Cloned Hamburger, Anyone?
01.11.2008
Testing the Genome
With Knowledge Comes Power … or Paranoia 12.14.2007
Message in a Bacterium
Researchers use DNA as a post-human time capsule. 06.04.2007
Ironman 2.0
Biologists enhance endurance with genetically altered muscles. 05.30.2007
Anti-Aging Gene
Can a simple flip of a gene make you live twice as long? 05.18.2007
Super Smellers
A mouse with an especially sharp nose could help old folks keep their sense of smell. 03.30.2007
Scientist of the Year: Jay Keasling
Which scientist had the greatest impact in the past year? 11.22.2006
Firefly Rx
How your favorite summertime insect may be illuminating drug research. 08.10.2006
Building a Better World With Cyborg Bacteria
Building a Better World With Cyborg Bacteria 02.20.2006
True Blue
07.24.2005
Double, Double, Life's Little Bubbles
02.02.2005
Kryptonite for Superbugs
01.02.2005
What the World Needs Now is Low-Carb Corn
08.02.2004
The Biology of . . . Flowers
Colors in the flower shop of the future may have little to do with nature 04.21.2004
Weapons of Mass Infection
02.05.2004
Computer Bug
02.05.2004
Biology
01.02.2004
Discover Data: The Other Resistance Problem
09.01.2003
Terminator Genes
Here's another fine mess biotechnology has gotten us into 08.01.2003
Physics
01.01.2003
Botany
01.01.2003
The Woes of the Clones
08.01.2002
Follow Up:
07.01.2002
Rogue Genes South of the Border
04.01.2002
Genetics
Year In Science 01.13.2002
Botany
Year In Science 01.13.2002
Works in Progress
The high-tech, high-controversy attempt to save endangered animals with clones and surrogate moms 09.01.2001
Supergenetics: Turning Leaves Into Flowers
05.01.2001
Genetically Altered Corn
How a genetically modified corn called StarLink that wasn't intended for humans got into your food supply 03.01.2001
Long Live the Clones
01.01.2001
Future Food
Beans that don't have to be soaked, apples that don't turn brown, and other wonders from the food technology conference 12.01.2000
Biocrops
that could win blue ribbons in twenty years if we don't watch out 10.01.2000
Cloning the Woolly Mammoth
If you thought reproducing sheep and mice was a leap ahead, you won't believe what the Japanese have in mind 04.01.1999
The Great Gene Escape
The seed companies say the plants they've created are safe. But who's to know what will come from a romp in the field with an untamed weed? 05.01.1998
The Year in Science: Genetics 1997
A Man-Made Chromosome 01.01.1998
Glowing Green Rodents
An unsuccessful experiment yeilds fluorescent mice. 12.01.1997
Buff Rodents
Knocking out a gene endows mice with an unusually muscular physique. 10.01.1997
The Good Virus
As bacterial diseases develop resistance to antibiotics, medical resarchers rediscover an older strategy: setting one microbe to kill another. 11.01.1996
Headless
Lacking a single gene, mice are born without heads. 01.01.1996
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