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Richard Clapp, whose yet unpublished study of cancer deaths among IBM workers at semiconductor plants has been the subject of controversy, says he is finally submitting his data to a print journal.

Researchers have identified a key enzyme in sea urchin egg fertilization.

Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) appear to silence genes in mice without triggering an immune response, according to researchers at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

By exploiting a malaria parasite's "Achilles heel," researchers in Germany say a transgenic whole-organism vaccine for humans may be possible.

islaunching the most inexpensive microarray scanner to date.

Discovering molecules that modulate protein-protein interactions is challenging, because the protein interfaces generally lack recognizable binding sites.

Targeted retroviral delivery of DNA is effective but hard to control, and can often prove cytotoxic due to insertional mutagenesis.

X-ray crystallography typically is used to capture static images of molecular structure.

It's been six years since human embryonic stem cells appeared on the public radar screen, and we still don't know what to call them.

Environment Agency has developed a science strategy--but will it mean more money?

Decision allows US publishers to edit manuscripts from Cuba, Iran, and Sudan

Society says Google violated its trademark, but search engine calls suit 'without merit'