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Towering figure of 20th century evolutionary biology was 100

Critics say 'request' for deposit of manuscript within 12 months of publication isn't enough

British government's reaffirms it will not require deposits in free-access repositories

'Sweeping' new ethics regulations restrict stock ownership but allow some teaching, writing

Department for International Development says more research support is forthcoming

As infectious disease experts around the world assess the impact of last month's tsunami on the current and future health of the people in the devastated region, the lessons of the past, particularly those involving women, are front and center.

By May of this year, the European Union is aiming to have a new Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in operation to help combat communicable diseases among its 25 member states.

Geneticas, a Los Angeles-based animal cloning-related company, has made some big claims since its founding in 2002.

RNA interference (RNAi) takes place in the nuclei of human cells, according to a group from the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Statin drugs appear to reduce inflammation associated with Alzheimer disease (AD) in a cholesterol-independent manner, say researchers from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland.

These papers were selected from multiple disciplines from the Faculty of 1000, a Web-based literature awareness tool http://www.facultyof1000.com.S.E. Williams et al., "Hemoxygenase-2 is an oxygen sensor for a calcium-sensitive potassium channel," Science, 306:2093-7, Dec. 17, 2004.It was known that [Big K+] channels are sensitive to oxygen, but the mechanism of sensing oxygen has remained elusive. It appears now that hemoxygenase-2 is in a complex with BK channels, and that carbon monoxide, a p

A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego, has harnessed the body's ability to tweak antibody genes to drive protein evolution in the lab.