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Effects on the field are still unknown, researchers say, but one advance may be in jeopardy

One permanently ends its ban on Iranian authors, another installs a new one for students

Barry Marshall and Robin Warren are recognized for discovering the bacterium that causes ulcers

Findings suggest winged mammals could spread SARS-like viruses across Asia, Australia and Europe

Chemist says Arizona State officials retaliated after he reported university wrongdoings

Journal pulls paper against authors' wishes, with little explanation

On the morning of September 7, Brian Cass, chief executive of contract research firm Huntingdon Life Sciences, was standing in an anteroom of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) chatting to officials, waiting to go onto the floor of the exchange where Huntingdon's US parent company, Life Sciences Research (LSR) was due to be listed.

of being "connected to the profits of the global arms trade."

Larry Rome is a professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania who studies how frogs and fish move.

Thriving tumors burn glucose and show up as bright spots on positron emission tomography screens.

For a while it looked as if proteomics' next frontier was the clinic, if one was to believe the hype surrounding a 2002 study from US Food and Drug Administration scientist Emanuel Petricoin III and National Cancer Institute scientist Lance Liotta.

The debate continues as to whether telomerase's only function is to promote telomere extension.