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The UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council announced a couple of days ago that it had appointed Michael Wakelam, currently of the University of Birmingham, to be its director as of January 1 next year.

Mice and humans have sequences that create or destroy microRNA binding sites

Piwi-interacting, or piRNAs, may play a role in developing sperm in mice

Metagenomic analysis shows bacteria, Archaea perform several crucial functions in human metabolism

University of Wisconsin-Madison finds questionable data in several studies; co-authors defend work

Credit: © COURTESY OF THE CDC" /> Credit: © COURTESY OF THE CDCIf the sight of a cockroach scuttling across your kitchen floor is enough to trigger paroxysms of disgust, then you'd be well advised to take a deep breath before browsing through "Cockroaches in the Home, Cockroaches Everywhere!!!" This exceptionally well-named publication was written by a team led by Sesai Mpuchane, associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Botswana, and it is meant to be scar

Credit: COURTESY OF THE J. DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES" /> Credit: COURTESY OF THE J. DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTESLast spring, Sue Saunders was writing a grant proposal for the elementary school where she runs an after-school literacy program, when a conversation with her daughter Laura, a postdoc studying cancer biology at the J. David Gladstone Institutes, gave her an idea.Every month, Laura and a few fellow postdocs had been visiting Junipero Serra Elementary School in Bernal

Credit: © WILLIAM LORENZ" /> Credit: © WILLIAM LORENZ The adult African elephant (Loxodonta africana) eats between 150 and 170 kilograms of food and drinks as much as 200 liters of water every day. Now imagine keeping 7,000 of those animals fed.That's the task of the staff at Kruger National Park, a 2-million hectare reserve that stretches 350 kilometers along South Africa's border with Mozambique. The elephant's appetite has an enormous impact on the surrounding envi

Credit: © DIEGO CERVO" /> Credit: © DIEGO CERVO Picture this: Among the cirque du swag of the BIO 2006 exhibit hall in Chicago, a cheerful young scientist pads up to the booth of a certain magazine of the life sciences. On scanning her nametag, one of my colleagues notices an interesting affiliation: Philip Morris. Intrigued, my colleague asks the senior research scientist about her work, which she says involves "harm reduction."With 16,000 people in attendance, BIO

As SARS emerged in 2003, attention quickly turned to airplanes, the most likely source of international spread. At the time, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) received passenger manifests, usually in hard copy, to notify people who had shared a flight with someone later diagnosed with the infection.In the Internet age, that procedure was hardly ideal. "The paper management of data was problematic," says the CDC's Christie Reed, mainly because of the di

In the spring of 1970 two young investigators shook the foundations of molecular biology's "central dogma," which holds that DNA is transcribed to RNA, which in turn is translated into protein.

Sandoz?s recombinant human growth hormone gets FDA okay, despite critics? concerns of inadequate testing