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Foundation honors work on stem cells, genetic tools, and breast cancer

After an appeal, an embryology regulator allows transfer of pronuclei into another woman's egg

The nearly $40 million in grants seen as statement that initiative is still alive

Ongoing repairs and FEMA occupancy will close Convention Center through March

The Dalai Lama is known for supporting peace, as his 1989 Nobel Peace Prize attests.

On the phone, John Ioannidis comes across much more cheerfully than you might expect from a man who has made a career out of pointing out the more questionable aspects of others' research endeavors.

Political, ethical, and family conflicts catapulted Terri Schiavo's case to international prominence earlier this year.

These papers were selected from multiple disciplines from the Faculty of 1000, a Web-based literature awareness tool http://www.facultyof1000.com.J. Lu et al., "MicroRNA expression profiles classify human cancers," Nature, 435:834–8, June 9, 2005.This article makes the surprising discovery that microRNA-expression profiles can be better predictors of cancer outcome than mRNA profiles. This conclusion is based on the use of a novel, bead-based flow-cytometry approach to examine the expressi

Without a sufficient cell culture system, researchers have had little success designing and testing drugs for the treatment of the hepatitis C virus (HCV).

Insect immunity may display hitherto unsuspected molecular complexity.

What is 30 times brighter than fluorescent markers, impervious to photobleaching, and won't leach heavy metals and other toxins into biological samples?

Most gas sensors, such as the carbon monoxide detectors found in many homes, monitor for the presence of a single volatile compound.