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Despite lack of life on Saturn's moon, astrobiologists could gain much from mission

Britain's science community has never seen anything quite like it.

Publishing 10 papers in one year is difficult for most scientists.

In the mid-1970s, the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, the program that gives US recipients the chance to study at Oxford for two to three years, included just one or two future scientists per year, out of 32 awardees.

These papers were selected from multiple disciplines from the Faculty of 1000, a Web-based literature-awareness tool http://www.facultyof1000.com.R. Ando et al., "Regulated fast nucleocytoplasmic shuttling observed by reversible protein highlighting," Science, 306:1370-3, Nov. 19, 2004.The authors describe a new fluorophore (Dronpa) that has a high quantum yield as well as being remarkably photochromic. Dronpa can be interconverted between bright (fluorescent) and dark (nonfluorescent) states by

Adipose tissue does more than store triglycerides.

For the first time, scientists have described a way for cells to add phosphate groups to proteins that doesn't involve an ATP donor.

Scientists at Purdue University, led by Graham Cooks, professor of analytical chemistry, recently reported a novel method for processing samples for mass spectrometry (MS) analysis.

For decades, cytogeneticists have pored over images of metaphase chromosomes from tumors, noting the many gross aberrations these karyotypes can reveal.

has built an entire company around its Dynabeads, which are tiny paramagnetic particles that bind target cells, proteins, or nucleic acids, and can be removed in seconds with a magnet once their work is done.

One summer in the late 1980s, Yuri Lazebnik needed to sort some cells.

In the wake of a law seen as a major blow for science, a major project's funding dries up