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Cell biologist Alice Dautry named new managing director

Convention bureau cancels all New Orleans meetings, including at least eight in life sciences

J. Craig Venter's part in the race to sequence the human genome secured him a place in the history books.

The average British ambulance is hardly what you'd call spacious, with an interior volume measuring about 12 cubic meters.

Michelle Ledgister was hopping mad over losing a property tax exemption on a home she owns and rents out near Boca Raton, Fla.

As a graduate student at Stanford University in the early 1990s, Jonathan Eisen convinced a friend with access to one of the first automated DNA sequencers to run 10,000 base pairs for him.

You've just cloned and sequenced a gene, but you don't know what it does.

The late 1980s were heady days for molecular biologists.

No protein is an island.

that's the basic concept behind MALDI, an ionization technique developed in the late 1980s to enable mass spectrometric analysis of large biomolecules.

Jerry Radich is looking for a needle in a haystack, and he's counting on a microfluidics device to help him find it.

When Art Ashkin, Steve Chu, and their colleagues at Bell Labs in Holmdel, NJ, first invented optical tweezers, they spent their days pushing around tiny, glass spheres.