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Web sites attract beautiful people who use "natural selection" to eliminate the imperfect

The cytokine is at the center of a retraction dispute

Father-in-law of now-infamous extensively drug-resistant TB patient studies tuberculosis at the CDC, and is now under review by the agency

The Icelandic research firm reaches a compromise in suit alleging former employees stole trade secrets when they left for academia

Endosome-mediating signaling occurs not just in animals, a finding that may ultimately turn back the clock on estimates of when this system evolved

Nature Precedings raises questions over the value of sharing findings before submitting to peer review

Biomedical advocates worry about NIH shortfall as Fiscal 2008 budget process begins in Congress

Computational Biology journal pulls paper about estimating the accuracy of phylogenetic trees, in what colleagues deem an exemplary process

One scientist made history when he asked a party guest to draw on his wall. The guest was Picasso, and the wall drawing is now famous

Filmmaker Jean Lemire weathers one of the world's cruelest climates to document the effects of global warming

Nature pulls flawed data from highly-cited paper; additional findings from the same authors are under investigation

Many regulatory sequences in the human genome are not conserved