Issue 1

Spring 2017

Features

Feature

Emerging from modest studies of bacteria, the hottest tool in biotech has redrawn the boundaries of experimental biology.

Unraveling CRISPR

April 1, 2017

Lifton shortly after taking office as Rockefeller

Interview

“With the sequence of the human genome in hand, we have, for the first time, a bounded problem. We have the ability to understand what each gene is doing in the context of a living human being.”

Richard P. Lifton

April 1, 2017

Becoming a scientist

Xin Jin

What, exactly, is a memory? As a Rockefeller graduate student, Xin Jin brought neuroscience one step closer to an answer.

April 1, 2017

Feature

For the first time, scientists have witnessed the remarkable journey of a human embryo's first two weeks—including implantation, when many early pregnancies fail.

Our origins, observed

April 1, 2017

Feature

Scientists studying appetite have developed new technology that makes mice hungry with the flip of a switch. What else could they do with it?

The radiogenetic remote control

April 1, 2017

Feature

Sugar substitutes have all the taste and none of the calories. But can they alter metabolism? A scientist with a cola habit takes matters into his own hands.

The cost of sweetness

April 1, 2017

Interview

Charles M. Rice

After decades of work, Rice's studies of hepatitis C led to a breakthrough, and a cure. “The most crucial elements were blood, sweat, and tears,” he says.

April 1, 2017