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The winners of a writing competition bring the stories of scientists to life

In one of the runners-up for the 2007 Subtle Science short story competition, part of the Oxford Literary Festival, a failed marriage has left a scientist bitter and frightened

In the story that earned first prize at the 2007 Subtle Science short story competition, part of the Oxford Literary Festival, a non-scientist falls in love with a state-of-the-art laboratory

New findings suggest a surprising level of accuracy in regulation of protein controlling body plan development

Royal Society medal winner was a leader in mammalian development research

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Robert Palazzo got his start studying centrosomes, and now prepares to take on the NIH

We've had a great response to the debate on whether the current way of evaluating scientists is reasonable. Add your thoughts by Wednesday (July 25) and help shape our upcoming feature on the subject

A child grows up in the lab, and now shows the world what she's learned

The genome of one of Earth's oldest animal species shares genes, features with vertebrate genomes

Adult neural stem cells in mice are a diverse, restricted set of progenitors

More research institutes require free access, but bill requiring it at NIH faces presidential veto