Using a novel bioinformatics approach, researchers identified a gene fusion that seems to occur in a majority of prostate cancers.

The Saturday afternoon lecture at the Society for Neuroscience conference in Washington, DC, by the Dalai Lama had been widely anticipated, and had sparked a petition of protest organized by mainly Chinese-origin researchers. In the end, however, there was just one protester standing silently outside the press conference room, holding up a conference tote bag with the words ?Dalai Lama NOT qualify to speak here? inscribed in barely legible ballpoint ink.Instead, thousands of conference atten

Functional assays demonstrate promise of MSP3 target, a potential first step in a long process, according to scientists

Take the bully out of the schoolyard and another quickly takes his place.

For Ben Ortiz, an assistant professor in biology at Hunter College of the City University of New York, a career in science was something he couldn't imagine when he was growing up.

Growing up in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Marietta Vazquez' doctor's visits would often turn into long question-and-answer sessions.

Lafayette Frederick was born in Dog Bog, Mississippi, and grew up with five brothers and sisters on a cotton farm in Missouri, where his sharecropper father taught him and other local kids in a one-room schoolhouse that doubled as a church.

Find is unusual in solid tumors, typically characterized solely by random genetic changes

It's not often that you get to witness a major scientific figure watch his own theatrical indictment.

Study shows rapid genetic response to social opportunity in cichlid fish

What if the 20-somethings on Friends were scientists? Columbia biology professor Darcy Kelley insists it could work. ?We?re just like regular people,? added Nobel laureate and Memorial Sloan Kettering director Harold Varmus. But does the rest of the country, perspectives shaped largely by the lenses of filmmakers, see scientists this way? Or are we pegged as either absent-minded superheroes or evil manipulators of human fate? Such was the topic of debate this week at the 20

It's tough to please an elite crowd of scientists, financiers, and other luminaries.