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In the estimated 5 million years since humans and chimpanzees began diverging, they've acquired major anatomical and cognitive differences.

© 2005 Center for Development BiologyResearchers at the University of Utah are among the first to use large-scale genetics to study the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea, which contains a genome thought to contain insight into adult stem cell pluripotency and tissue regeneration.1Because the organism does not reproduce sexually, it cannot be studied using traditional genetic techniques. But by using bacterial-fed RNA interference against 1065 planarian genes, the study "effectively makes an

Visualizing gene expression in living animals, at high spatial resolution and in real time, has been a long-held goal in molecular research.

The same technology that reveals to expectant parents the sex of their developing fetus is now being used for noninvasive, real-time imaging of small, live animals such as mice, rats, chick embryos, and zebrafish.

Since their introduction as a life science tool 15 years ago, surface plasmon resonance (SPR) systems have offered highly sensitive, label-free, real-time detection of molecular interactions.

If you were a small business owner looking for a loan, you'd expect financial and perhaps accounting advice from your banker.

Epidemiology in Vietnam raises the possibility of human-human spread

As of October, all new grant recipients will be required to deposit papers with PubMed Central

German meeting group looks to the future, without seven protesting board members

Top JAMA editors explain how the editorial-advertising firewall really works

Group of funding bodies wants to create a free-access archive to mimic the US service

National Academies report calls for a new visa category for international grads and postdocs