William Neaves could be forgiven for feeling popular last month.

It was the beginning of 2002, and employees of Renovis, a biopharmaceutical company based in San Francisco had many reasons to celebrate.

Journal pulls paper against authors' wishes, with little explanation

Preparations for incoming hurricane include evacuating, killing experiments and freezing select agents

On Thursday, the Associated Press reported that mice carrying Yersinia pestis ? the bacteria that cause bubonic plague -- had disappeared from a laboratory at the Public Health Research Institute, part of the campus of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. The university says it does not know what happened to the mice, first discovered missing two weeks ago.According to the AP, health experts reassured that there was ?scant public risk.? That?s not what Robert Brubaker,

The nearly $40 million in grants seen as statement that initiative is still alive

The Science Times section of the New York Times ran a story yesterday describing how the increasingly popular documentary ?March of the Penguins? is being used by conservatives to justify their positions on abortion, monogamy and intelligent design. One conservative film critic is calling the film ?Passion of the Penguins.? Huh? I?ve seen this movie, and what are these people talking about? Here?s the evidence the article presents:A writer for World Magazine, a Christian publication,

As a graduate student at Stanford University in the early 1990s, Jonathan Eisen convinced a friend with access to one of the first automated DNA sequencers to run 10,000 base pairs for him.

a first draft, so to speak, of protein-protein interactions, the subject of the story on the pages that follow.

Courtesy of Scott Bauer, ARSFour weeks after delaying publication of a paper at the request of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published the paper in late June.1 The study pinpoints areas in the dairy industry that are vulnerable to bioterror attacks.In the paper, professor of management science Lawrence M. Wein and graduate student Yifan Liu of Stanford University explain how bioterrorists could poison the US milk

Agency says that in ghostwriting proposal, 'scholarly journals' represent trade publications, not peer-reviewed ones

Inquiry sparks Republican infighting and widespread scientific protest over 'intimidation'