Hans Kornberg has spent his career figuring out bacterial metabolism - and has had a very good time doing it.

How Terry Sejnowski went from a grad student in theoretical physics to computational neuroscience's White Knight.

Laura Landweber was 33 when she received tenure at Princeton. Oxytricha, beware: She's got a lot of science ahead of her.

The songbirds studied by Fernando Nottebohm aren't the only ones singing his praises.

Ajit Varki came to the United States to hear 1970's superbands. He stayed to do super glycobiology research.

It's a good thing "rock star of microbiology" Bonnie Bassler didn't end up studying cancer

Paul Nurse had trouble getting into graduate school. Twenty five years later, he won the Nobel Prize for his work on the cell cycle.

Tony Hunter discovered tyrosine kinases because he was lazy - then the fun began

Ulrike Heberlein started out studying fruit fly eyes. So how did she end up inventing the inebriometer?

Judy Campisi's work on cancer may reveal the secrets of (not) getting older

Throughout his career, Inder Verma has turned unexpected results into important advances

It was the first Saturday of Spring 2003, and Joe DeRisi and his postdoc David Wang were staked out at either end of the University of California, San Francisco's Genentech Hall waiting for the FedEx truck.