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False credit for scientific discoveries threatens the success and pace of research.

Silk impregnated with bleach may provide a new way to fight the formidable spores of the anthrax bacterium.

Senior Investigator, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Age 40

With persistence and pluck, Leslie Vosshall managed to snatch insect odorant receptors from the jaws of experimental defeat.

Research is underway to reduce the use of food crops for biofuels by shifting to dedicated energy crops and agricultural residues.

Using tiny lipid discs, scientists resolve contradictory evidence about how many proteins are required for neurotransmitter release.

More than simply helping haul out a cell’s garbage, ubiquitin, with its panoply of chain lengths and shapes, marks and regulates many unrelated cellular processes.

Making macrophages in atherosclerotic plaques digest spent organelles instead of dying may help keep plaques stable.

Retrotransposons contribute to genetic variability in human brain cells.

As nonconventional medical treatments become increasingly mainstream, we take a look at the science behind some of the most popular.

Neuroscientist Mona Thiruchelvam agrees to retract two studies linking neurodegeneration to pesticides.

The Supreme Court's decision to uphold President Barack Obama's health care reform law contains key provisions that will impact US science funding in the years to come.