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US President's Council restricts study of embryos past 14 days, silent on work before that

Scientists set up a research network to focus on an 'underappreciated' discipline

Scientists ponder implications for the research system of a government shakeup

genomes and asking for defiance on Cuba

Half a million more are needed by 2010 to meet research targets, report says

Conference examines origins of life on Earth, elsewhere in the universe, and the future

Functional genomics center at Greifwald University to work on infectious diseases

CNRS says no to lab leaders' offer to quit administrative posts so strikes may follow

Some criticize move by Dept of Defense to award $240,000 to Lund University researchers

The country's new ruling party plans some major science policy and admin reforms

Of the 352 readers who responded to our survey:- Alexander Grimwade

Courtesy of Pramod SrivastavaOften in science, what seem to be definitive answers lead to new questions, which lead to new answers and the cycle goes on. That's what happened when I came across heat shock proteins. I was a postdoc at Sloan Kettering in 1985, and I had just received the results of the N-terminal sequence of gp96, a tumor-rejection antigen, which I had purified from a mouse sarcoma, and earlier from a rat hepatoma. With the sequence in hand, I felt confident that I had just solved