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A major review will examine regulation of assisted reproduction and embryology research

South Korean scientist envisages the new center as a kind of Jackson Labs for stem cells

Management shake-up planned amid concerns over political influence at Austrian Research Centers

After the disease threatened to spread into France, reference lab takes corrective action

Leading German researcher says opposition criticism of ethics council is about control over stem cell laws

Figures from the pharmaceutical industry show that violent animal rights protests less frequent this year than last

Investigators at the Influenza Research Centre in southern China await permit to restart avian flu research

Soon after reproductive and developmental biologist Sudhansu Dey's group at the University of Kansas moved to new quarters at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., they began noticing that once well-established results on uterine gene expression and reproductive function in female mice procured from the same supplier, and of the same genetic strain, had become a lot less predictable.

Last year, after 15-year-old Katie Vanderwheele read an article about natural arsenic contaminating the drinking water in Bangladesh, she decided that tackling this global problem was a natural fit for a school science project.

bacteria can be found in every milliliter of human feces, and on a bad day in Reading University's food microbial science unit you can smell every one of them.

a first draft, so to speak, of protein-protein interactions, the subject of the story on the pages that follow.

Courtesy of Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIHIn a finding that further validates an emerging vaccine strategy, researchers in Italy and the United States have worked backward from genome to antigens to identify a protein cocktail that may confer global protection against group B streptococcus (GBS).1This discovery represents "one of the important ways in which the promise of genomics can be harnessed," says Victor Nizet of the University of California, San Diego, who did not participate in