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In a rare occurrence, New York VA researcher receives 71 months in jail for altering patient records

Korean researcher asked his institution to conduct probe into patient-specific stem cells to clear his name

In wake of Katrina, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center releases 430 staffers without pay, benefits

Leading scientists criticize the UK's national academy of science for its negative stance

Decision stemmed from scientific organizations' complaints against a group decrying animal experiments

Federal government may soften proposed restrictions on foreign-born scientists

Scientists continue to protest the reform, arguing it puts basic research in jeopardy

Amanda Goodall, a doctoral student in strategic management at Warwick Business School, UK, had a hunch, based on her experience working for college officials in both the United States and the United Kingdom: The world's elite research universities put a premium on naming elite researchers as their presidents.

If you didn't know better, you'd have been forgiven for being suspicious of the timing of the opening of the American Museum of Natural History's (AMNH) exhibit on Darwin in the middle of last month.

Life scientists have been challenged more than ever this year not just to critically analyze data, but to better interpret those data for an increasingly critical public.

news in funding, policy, and strategy, from government agencies to biotechs, suggests that the industry is still as robust as ever.

These papers were selected from multiple disciplines from the Faculty of 1000, a Web-based literature awareness tool http://www.facultyof1000.com.N. Touret et al., "Quantitative and dynamic assessment of the contribution of the ER to phagosome formation," Cell, 123:157–170, Oct. 7, 2005.Aligning an impressive array of methods, this study provides strong evidence against the recently proposed model of a significant contribution of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membranes during early phagosome