Scientists at the Missouri Botanical Garden are preserving diverse plant species. And, how micronutrients could help address world hunger.

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Medical sculptor Damon Coyle walks around with a Mary Poppins bag of body parts. Fake ones, that is. At the University of Missouri, his lab creates hyperrealistic body parts designed to help medical ...

Damon has a passion for creating ultra-realistic interactive training devices. With a background in medicine, anatomical sculpture, product development, and industrial design, Damon uses his skills ...

Katalin Karikó is a biochemist and professor at the University of Szeged in Hungary and an adjunct professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is most known for ...

The Leap” is a new podcast series profiling scientists willing to take big risks—personal and professional—to push the ...

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Dr. Michael Schatz is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Biology at Johns Hopkins University. His main research interest is to understand the structure and function of ...

Dr. Sandor Mulsow is a marine geologist at the Austral University of Chile. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the ...

Bacteria are not as simple as their reputation suggests. Understanding how they communicate may lead to better disease treatments for us humans. This website uses cookies to improve your experience ...