A Dead Man's Eyes Hold the Key to His Age
Proteins in the eye offer a new means of identifying corpses. 05.02.2008
In Election Year, Stem Cell Question Grows Still Gnarlier
Bush says he won the war, but the prez ain't seen nothin' yet. 03.03.2008
A Chat With George W. Bush’s Conscience
Embryonic stem cells crashed against Leon Kass’ old-school moralism. 02.20.2008
62. Human Egg Harvesting Succeeds
01.11.2008
9. The Genome Turns Personal
With individual sequencing, medicine may soon be custom-tailored to your own DNA. 12.12.2007
Beauty Sans the Beast
Lab-grown skin saves cute li'l bunnies from cosmetics testing. 11.07.2007
Space-Faring Fungus Hats and Synthetic Biology
If the science moves like Moore's law, get ready for bio-freakiness. 10.22.2007
The Future of Blood
Some researchers tinker with real blood; some create from scratch. 08.06.2007
Good News for Alcoholics
Artificial livers can be grown in a petri dish 03.20.2007
Blinded by Science: The Way of All Flesh
Bringing home the bacon may become a thing of the past when we can grow our own. 07.12.2006
Taking the Sting Out of Brain Cancer
A new drug treatment uses scorpion venom to find tumors. 06.30.2006
Cancer Rewind?
Reversing cell division could have implications for cancer. 06.27.2006
Grow Your Own Organs
Organ printers build living transplantable organs one layer at a time. 06.25.2006
Raw Data: Restoring Eyesight to the Blind
06.25.2006
No More Nerve Damage
A new drug could reverse nerve damage in diabetics. 05.26.2006
Muscle Injection
Gene therapy could cure muscular dystrophy. 04.17.2006
Alzheimer's Hope
Gene therapy trial proves successful. 04.07.2006
Nanotube Knees and Elbows
Goodbye, metal: Doctors grow new bones. 03.31.2006
Young at Heart
Protein returns youth to cardiac muscle. 02.28.2006
Nerve Cell Repair
New hope for strokes. 01.19.2006
The Year in Science: Technology
Carbon nanotubes, lab-grown meat, humanoid robots, and more. 01.08.2006
The Year in Science: Medicine
The human gut's vulnerable to HIV, Race-based drugs approved, fetal skin grafts mend burns, and more. 01.08.2006
Tissue Engineering
Biochemistry that makes alchemy look easy 10.24.2005
The Brain
Neural implants will treat tremors, paralysis, and even memory loss 10.24.2005
I Spy a Bionic Eye
08.06.2005
Brain in a Dish
02.06.2005
The Biology of . . . Cryogenics
Wood frogs survive long periods in a deep freeze. Can people do the same? 02.06.2005
27: Frozen Ovary Restores Fertility
01.03.2005
52: Mice Breed Without Fathers
01.03.2005
Bite Back
12.03.2004
Get This to the CD Player, Stat!
10.06.2004
Midnight for Menopause
10.01.2004
Fat Into Bone
08.02.2004
Will Genetics Destroy Sports?
A new age of biotechnology promises bigger, faster, better bodies—and blood, urine, and saliva tests can't stop the cheating 07.25.2004
Fuzzy Duplicates
05.29.2004
Gross Anatomy
4 makes cadavers an art form and dissection uncomfortably real 03.28.2004
Artistic Neurons
11.10.2003
Discover Dialogue: Pharmacologist Susan Greenfield
Happy people are not ambitious; they do not build civilizations' 09.01.2003
Spray-On Organs
05.01.2003
Genetics
01.01.2003
Take a Deep Breath of DNA
01.01.2003
The Chemistry of . . . Blood
The first safe substitutes for blood are ready to start flowing 07.01.2002
20 Biotech Geniuses to Watch
Will biologists ever work exclusively at universities again? 06.01.2002
Follow Up:
05.01.2002
Winner - Editor's Choice
Laurence M. Corash, M.D.; Co-founder & Chief Medical Officer, Cerus Corporation; Concord, California 07.01.2001
Blood Without Fear
Discover Magazine Innovation Awards 07.01.2001
Pulling Pain Up
03.01.2001
Future Tech
What's beyond silicon and fiber optics? Would you believe microprocessors with living brain tissue? 10.01.2000
Sexing the Genome
09.01.2000
Immortal Cells
Is this the end of facial wrinkles and aging arteries that clog? 06.01.1999
How to Grow Bones From Scratch
02.01.1999
Vegetable Vaccines
09.01.1998
The Mothmobile
07.01.1998
Saviors
Someday the transplant you need may be growing on the hoof—or in a lab. 05.01.1998
Ontogeny Recapitulated
Biologists are learning how to turn on the genes that make our cells young. With them, we might repair our bones. Replenish our blood. Replace our limbs. And maybe some brain cells too. 05.01.1998
A Clone of One's Own
First sheep, then cows, soon monkeys: It's only a matter of time until the first human clone is cooing in its—uh, mother's?—arms. 05.01.1998
A Head Full of Hope
How do you launch something into orbit without using any fuel? A prototype spacecraft relies on a To attack a terrifying form of brain tumor, surgeons are adding a tiny new tool to their kit: a genetically tweaked virus, designed to mark cancer cells for death. 04.01.1998
The Year in Science: Genetics 1997
A Man-Made Chromosome 01.01.1998
Fake Cells
05.01.1997
Patent Medicine
01.01.1997
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
The Naked and the Webbed
08.01.1996
Gentle Bullets
01.01.1996
The Subtle Approach
01.01.1996
A More Careful Virus
01.01.1996
Gene Therapy: Special Delivery
01.01.1996
Fetal Attraction
In theory, brain cells that have been killed by Parkinson's disease can be replaced with cells from the brains of aborted fetuses. Now that the necessary politics and the technology are in place, neurosurgeons are about to find out if that theory is correct. 07.01.1995
The Mother of All Blood Cells
Stem cells, capable of generating an endless supply of red cells, white cells, and platelets, have also generated a heated scientific controversy--and millions of dollars for the man who claims to have found them. 03.01.1995
Weed on Parole
03.01.1992