Papers were published despite concerns the findings could aid bioterrorism

California researchers have found a previously unrecognized role for microRNAs: aiding and abeting hepatitis C virus in the liver.

Foundation honors work on stem cells, genetic tools, and breast cancer

The Dalai Lama is known for supporting peace, as his 1989 Nobel Peace Prize attests.

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salary survey shows that women are coming up short in terms of compensation.

Study shows how brain events in 'attentional blink' relate to consciousness

Intestinal transporter is regulated by hypoxia, not iron stores, says Cell study

Liver-specific microRNA facilitates replication of the virus, study in Science shows

Sequence comparisons give most detailed look to date of chimpanzee-human differences

Last year, after 15-year-old Katie Vanderwheele read an article about natural arsenic contaminating the drinking water in Bangladesh, she decided that tackling this global problem was a natural fit for a school science project.

Courtesy of Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIHIn a finding that further validates an emerging vaccine strategy, researchers in Italy and the United States have worked backward from genome to antigens to identify a protein cocktail that may confer global protection against group B streptococcus (GBS).1This discovery represents "one of the important ways in which the promise of genomics can be harnessed," says Victor Nizet of the University of California, San Diego, who did not participate in