The President wants to devote $2 billion to research that might wean America off of oil.
The President wants to devote $2 billion to research that might wean America off of oil.
Transcriptome studies reveal new insights about unusual animals whose genomes have not been sequenced.
A red alga appears to have adapted to extremely hot, acidic environments by collecting genes from bacteria and archaea.
As US policymakers debate federal budget cuts, global health science hangs in the balance.
Drosophila insulin-like peptides (dILPs) regulate part of the signaling pathway that helps keep organs growing in proportion during development.
Agencies like the NSF and NIH are losing around 5 percent of their yearly budgets.
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During development, communication between organs determines their relative final size.
Physicists and biologists are working together to understand cooperation at all levels of life, from the cohesion of molecules to interspecies interactions.
A new project to map the activity of the human brain could receive more than $3 billion dollars in federal funds in President Obama’s upcoming budget proposal.