The researcher was one of the first to identify the molecular basis of immune recognition

Robert Palazzo got his start studying centrosomes, and now prepares to take on the NIH

The paper: J.L. Cleary et al., "Natural oligomers of the amyloid-β protein specifically disrupt cognitive function," Nat Neurosci, 8:79?84, 2005. (Cited in 124 papers) The finding: James Cleary at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center and colleagues revealed that soluble human forms of amyloid-β oligomer (a-β), a protein implicated in Alzheimer disease, disrupted rats' memory of a learned lever-pressing task. "We didn

Credit: Frans de Waal / Emory University" /> Credit: Frans de Waal / Emory University The paper: R. Nielsen et al., "A scan for positively selected genes in the genomes of humans and chimpanzees," PLoS Biol, 3:976-85, 2005. (Cited in 55 papers) The finding: Rasmus Nielsen from the University of Copenhagen and colleagues from Cornell University compared 13,731 human genes to their chimpanzee orthologs and found the strongest evidence for positive sel

The cytokine is at the center of a retraction dispute

Father-in-law of now-infamous extensively drug-resistant TB patient studies tuberculosis at the CDC, and is now under review by the agency

Nature pulls flawed data from highly-cited paper; additional findings from the same authors are under investigation

Researchers successfully reprogram fertilized mouse eggs, producing both embryonic stem cells and cloned animals

The organic chemist performed the first experiments that illuminated how life began

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