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, March 21, 2005), his name was added to a list of more than 40 other researchers currently enduring lesser penalties for similar but generally lesser crimes.

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only 31 of every 100 human conceptions complete the journey.

These papers were selected from multiple disciplines from the Faculty of 1000, a Web-based literature awareness tool http://www.facultyof1000.com.S.J. Lolle et al., "Genome-wide non-mendelian inheritance of extra-genomic information in Arabidopsis," Nature, 434:505–9, March 24, 2005.This paper reports an unusual form of inheritance in Arabidopsis "hothead" mutants, where DNA sequence information absent in the parent but present in previous generations reappears at high frequency in selfed

Researchers at Cornell University's Weill Medical College in New York have created a successful vaccine strategy in mice that uses the immune system's typical antibody response to adenoviruses – which can prevent modified viruses from expressing their payloads and thus diminish the vaccine's efficacy – to boost the antibody response to the vaccine.1By attaching 720 copies of an immunogenic polypeptide from Pseudomonas aeruginosa to the capsid shell of a replication-deficient adenovir

Researchers have discovered the first protein quality control system in the yeast nucleus.

Though agricultural biotechnology has the potential to transform small-scale farming in developing countries, such transformation faces a major bottleneck: the intellectual property landscape.

Billerica, Mass.-based Millipore showcased its new Direct-Q System for delivery of pure and ultra-pure water at the 2005 Pittsburgh Conference in Orlando, Fla.

To encourage human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) to multiply without differentiating, scientists currently use a complex chemical mixture provided by mouse embryonic fibroblast "feeder cells."

On a recent visit to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the witch hazel was just beginning to bloom, the magnolia trees were budding, but in the herbarium staging area, it was still spring training.

Supreme Court appeal could limit licensing income for research tool makers

Scientists angry over government's silence as country readies for research system overhaul