Articles by Laura Spinney

Richard Houlston works at the Institute of Cancer Research in Sutton, UK, where he searches for genes that confer susceptibility to disease.

Rodney Brooks has what seems like modest career goals: to achieve the manual dexterity of a 6-year-old and the object-recognition skills of a toddler.

none of which is conducive to relaxation.

Epilepsy often develops after the brain is damaged, and patients commonly must take anticonvulsant drugs for a lifetime despite unpleasant side effects.

Scientists hope 3-Tesla MRI will increase quality of country's research

A prominent British psychiatrist recently revived old arguments about the origins of language and the evolution of humans. Tim Crow at Warneford Hospital in Oxford says that reports on ape brain asymmetry are distorted by observer bias.1 Those criticized point to "plenty of evidence" that general functions and skills have gravitated to one side of the brain or the other in animals from chicks to chimps.Crow argues that researchers are finding evidence of language precursors in apes because they

Officials would not issues licenses for travel to conference on coma and death

Courtesy Rachel Haridsty Mouse Genome Centre, Medical Research Council, Harwell, UK  MUTT AND JEFF: The Jeff mutant (bottom left), derived from an ethylnitrosourea screen for deaf mutants, has craniofacial abnormalities such as a shortened face when compared with a wild-type mouse (top left). The Jeff mutation maps to mouse chromosome 17 in a region of the mouse genome homolous to human chromosome 2p16-23. A large-scale mouse-mutagenesis program in Harwell, UK, recently turned up two new

New research center brings together four "-omics" to tackle clinical problems.

Scientists broadly support idea of new pan-European research body.

Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded amid protests that two of mass spectrometry's inventors overlooked

Success of proteomics venture rests on improving tools and resolving bioinformatics and intellectual property issues.