Stories by Brendan Borrell

Known as “Monkey Island,” Cayo Santiago is considered a research treasure

Jim Papadopoulos has spent a lifetime pondering the maths of bikes in motion. Now his work has found fresh momentum

Prized—and increasingly rare—bouquets of an enchanting flower from Brazil’s mountainous heartland pit collectors against conservationists

A small mammal that likes to feast on a soybean pest in Brazil's Cerrado illustrates how preserving this savanna landscape is good for farms as well as biodiversity

The big cats could return to do the job they once did in Brazil's grassland—hunt a growing population of wild pig relatives, called peccaries, that decimates crop yields

Watson says he will donate some proceeds form the auction to support research

DNA-based memory can record multiple inputs from engineered gene circuits

Desperate to develop new drugs for malaria and other ailments, researchers are running clinical trials with traditional herbal medicines—and generating promising leads

Researchers use reverse pharmacology to evaluate traditional herbal medicines in Africa

Periodic injection of an antiviral drug has been found to keep monkeys virus-free and could confer protection in humans for as long as three months

A new technique adds a spatial dimension to studies of gene expression

A sexually transmitted canine cancer has acquired almost two million mutations and is still going strong

The technical feat involved stringing together all the amino-acid building blocks in erythropoietin, but it's unclear if the team produced a properly folded form

In Indonesia's Raja Ampat islands, local people are leading the effort to protect the world's most diverse coral reefs—and their own livelihoods—from the ravages of overfishing

Residents describe how their lives have improved since illegal practices stopped

After 33 years in the federal government, toxicologist Linda Birnbaum has tried to put sound science at the center of debates over chemical regulation

New York University lost crucial mouse colonies, but students and staff helped to save equipment and patients

Argentinean Mercedes Doretti has successfully identified the remains of hundreds of Central American immigrants who have perished on their dangerous journey north

Freshwater snails and reef-building corals are among the threatened groups

Long ignored by mainstream researchers, the viruses that infect bacteria have a role to play in modern medicine, Vincent Fischetti says

The obesity treatment shows promise for patients with diabetes despite concerns that it could cause heart complications

Two compounds already approved for use in humans increased the survival of lab mice even after they were exposed to radiation

Thumbi Ndung'u has moved from Africa to Massachusetts and back in a quest to halt the AIDS epidemic