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Scientists continue to scuffle over blame and responsibility, and are taking their grievances to court

U.S. president will likely issue a second veto on a bill expanding federal research support for human embryonic stem cells

The acclaimed children's book author also was an ahead-of-her-time botanist

A new play captures the power struggles that can occur among troops of monkeys and the scientists studying them

An unprecedented number of medical research charities join politicians and scientists calling for the use of enucleated animal eggs in human stem cell research

Kinesin's movement along microtubule lattices may not require the lattice itself, dispelling some previous suspicions

Germany adopts an EU policy to fast-track visas for foreign scientists, but UK vows to opt out

US Patent and Trademark Office sides with scientists and consumer groups who had asked for a review of Wisconsin intellectual property

Research groups are concerned that a new NIH probe into conflicts of interest among extramural researchers may ultimately limit academic-industry partnerships

The pioneering physician and vaccine researcher helped create the first multivalent pneumococcal vaccine, earning him a Lasker Award

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Reed Cartwright" />Reed Cartwright One day in March 2005, Reed Cartwright jotted his thoughts on his blog, De Rerum Natura, after reading a paper that had just been published in Nature. Cartwright, then a PhD student in genetics at the University of Georgia, was skeptical. Susan Lolle and colleagues at Purdue University had found a peculiar phenomenon regarding a mutant gene, called hothead (hth), in Arabidopsis. In parents carrying the mutant hth gene, 10% of the progeny ended u