If other barnacles also use ocean currents to cross-fertilize, scientists may have to rework their population models, he says.
Bernard Rollin, an ethicist, posits that there is nothing intrinsically wrong with scientists crossing the species barrier given that so many of the world's "moral categories" have been adapted or displaced to meet the challenges of our technologically driven contemporary world [ 22].
Scientists are crossing their fingers.
I've seen him in action in South Africa, cross-questioning the scientists, making sure they've thought it all through, including the costs.
These days, most scientists cross borders in one way or another.
Sayce says she's been surprised at how easily traditional scientists "cross over to insurance, finance, brokerage, or analytic work.
Thus, curiously, those visionary scientists crossed succulent plants with fibrous plants to take advantage of the rusticity genes in the fibrous plants and subsequently, all sugarcane-breeding programs in the world held divergent selection for sucrose content, for a century.
Similar slow progress has occurred at the project in Mexico, where scientists started by crossing corn with tripsacum, a wild relative that was naturally apomictic.
In highly controversial research that some view as crossing an ethical line, Chinese scientists have edited the genomes of human embryos, Nature reports.
We will bring to you firsthand experiences, thoughts, and aspirations of some of our most promising transnational scientists who are crossing borders to do good science.
