When Geeks Meet, Nature, November 2011

Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen thinks scientists and engineers could be more likely to have a child with autism. Some researchers say the proof isn’t there.


It's All About the Structure, Nature, August 2011

For more than 20 years, Brian Kobilka worked to create a portrait of a key cell receptor. Sometimes, the slow, steady approach wins. 


Missing the Mark, Nature, March 2011

Why is it so hard to find a test to predict cancer?

No Accounting for Taste (pdf), New Scientist, December 2010

Bitter, expensive and almost undrinkable -- why is America's craft beer getting so extreme?

The New Germ Theory, Nature, November 2010

What can microbiologists who study human bowels learn from those who study the bowels of the Earth?

In Their Nurture, Nature, September 2010

Can epigenetics underlie the enduring effects of a mother’s love? Lizzie Buchen investigates the criticisms of a landmark study and the controversial field to which it gave birth.

Cancer Crunch (pdf), New Scientist, July 2010

Could a bunch of outsiders help tame a global killer?

Illuminating the Brain,
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Nature, May 2010

Systems neuroscientists are pushing aside their electrophysiology rigs to make room for the tools of ‘optogenetics’. Lizzie Buchen reports from a field in the process of reinvention.

Flies on Film, Nature, November 2009

A unique collaboration is bringing automated screening to the study of fly behaviour and could change the way that machines see humans. 


To Boldly Go Where No Startup Has Gone Before, The Economist (Babbage), September 1 2011

Enormous Shark’s Secret Hideout Finally Discovered, Wired Science, May 7, 2009

Record Amount of Supercomputer Time Means New Science, Wired Science, Apr 30 2009

Patches for Faces, Scientific American, December 2008

Amoeba Family Values, Science NOW, Nov 25, 2008 (subscription required; click for pdf)

Left or Right, Flight or Fight, Scientific American Mind, October 2008

Primate Motions, Scientific American, September 2008

Task Group Summary, National Academies Keck Futures Initiative, November 2008

Cancer's Signature - Written in Blood (pdf), Biomedical Computation Review, Winter 2008/2009

Are Efforts to Save the Giant Panda a Giant Waste of Money?, DiscoverMagazine.com, August 2008

Building a Better Bubbly, Discover, August 2008

From Eye to Sight, symmetry magazine, January 2008

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