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Report urges creation of voluntary review system for all US science with bioterror potential

Expert group and Nobel winners champion the cause, but funding still an issue

Expanding US research funding has not meant more research opportunities

New NSF-funded virtual centers created to cultivate speedy collaboration

Raymond Damadian was conspicuously absent from the medicine prize awardees

Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon share chemistry prize

Critics say moves to invigorate research undermined by axing of permanent posts

NSF awards $30 million for interdisciplinary work on evolution, development, and reproduction

Half-million dollar prizes awarded for creativity in a wide range of disciplines

Lauterbur and Mansfield lauded for contribution to imaging technique

The 420 print and web readers who responded to our survey about national origins were born in 67 different countries and currently reside in 45 countries. A remarkable 36% of respondents presently work in a place other than their native homeland, and 59% have lived in more than one country for three or more months. "I was born in England, live in Belgium, work in Germany!" says one reader. The countries with the largest percentages of non-native scientists moving in are the United States, Can

Courtesy of University of California, San Francisco The science of yeast genetics was still in its infancy some 30 years ago, and one of its thorniest problems wouldn't go away: How do diploid yeast cells transform themselves into haploid cells, so that they can mate and reproduce through meiosis? A young University of Oregon researcher named Ira Herskowitz proposed that a cassette of DNA dropped out, only to be replaced by a copy of another cassette of DNA, and that this event altered the ve