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Focus On: Cancer Vaccines

After decades of research, therapeutic cancer vaccines are finally beginning to show promise in clinical trials. We look at why earlier efforts failed and how the latest approaches work

Focus on: Image Manipulation

After nearly two decades of efforts to educate researchers and publishers, many papers still contain images that have been inappropriately edited

Are our memories formed by an ancient virus?

Arc, a key protein in memory formation, looks and behaves like a retrovirus, moving RNA between cells in a virus-like capsid

'I push people to apply the scientific method to crazy questions'

Tom Ireland speaks to biohacker Andrew Pelling about his unconventional Canadian laboratory, where researchers and artists ask unusual questions about what can be done with living tissues

Crazy horses

In the unusual world of seahorse sex, it's the males that get pregnant. Francisco Otero-Ferrer and William V Holt explain how this is of use in reproductive and developmental studies

How to…Beachcomb

Photographers and naturalists Julie Hatcher and Steve Trewhella explain the basics of beachcombing, and how it contributes to conservation and research

Who was... Kathleen Carpenter?

Catherine Duigan explores the life and times of Dr Kathleen Carpenter, a pioneering scientist known as 'the mother of freshwater ecology'

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