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MIT stem cell researcher threatens unprecedented hunger strike after alleging he was denied tenure because of his race

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U.S. water management agency accuses biologist of distributing sensitive information; scientist insists his actions were above board

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SNP-driven differences in gene expression help distinguish ethnic groups

Audiences at a college production of Sartre's "The Flies" got swarmed in their seats by thousands of bugs bred on campus

Recent findings upend conclusions from five highly-cited papers

Details emerge about lawmakers' attempts to expand Federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research

Accused of fraud, Anders Pape Möller has traveled from superstar evolutionary biologist to pariah.

A DIRTY JOB: Alexander Friend observing activity in a window at the rhizotron." />A DIRTY JOB: Alexander Friend observing activity in a window at the rhizotron. Alexander Friend walks up to a stainless steel door, twists some latches holding it into the wall, and lifts the 7-kg rectangle out of its hole and onto the floor, revealing a sideways 152 x 101 cm window into the earth. This is window 17 of the 24 in the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service's Houghton, Michigan rhizotr

A DIRTY JOB: Alexander Friend observing activity in a window at the rhizotron." />A DIRTY JOB: Alexander Friend observing activity in a window at the rhizotron. Alexander Friend walks up to a stainless steel door, twists some latches holding it into the wall, and lifts the 7-kg rectangle out of its hole and onto the floor, revealing a sideways 152 x 101 cm window into the earth. This is window 17 of the 24 in the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service's Houghton, Michigan rhizotr

Twenty-one years ago, a young Australian geneticist named Nick Martin published a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (83:4364-8, 1986) that described a curious sideline to his regular work on the epidemiology of disease in twins. The study, which Martin coauthored with his mentor Lyndon Eaves, probed the transmission of social attitudes among more than 4,500 pairs of fraternal and identical twins. The results suggested that genetic factors, rather than cultural o