third annual Best Places to Work in Academia survey conveyed a clear message: The people that they work with, the resources at their disposal, and their opportunities for career advancement are the leading factors in determining their satisfaction with their work environment.

It's been a good year for salaries in the life sciences: Median salaries have gone up by 3.8% since last year, surpassing the consumer price index rise of 3.2% from July 2004.

exogenous proteins are often fatal to the cells, and endogenous proteins can interfere with purification of the target protein.

place to work.

Step into David Kritchevsky's irregularly shaped basement office at the University of Pennsylvania's Wistar Institute, and you'll immediately be able to tell that he's been there for a while.

Researchers are now using symbolic logic as a proteomics tool.

), governs axon and dendrite growth in determining cell polarity, according to research groups from China and Japan.

asks postdocs from the United States, Canada, and Europe to reveal how they feel about their jobs, and this year more than 3,500 answered the call.

Five government organizations, four universities, three private institutes, two cancer centers, and one hospital.

Teams in China and Japan show how glycogen synthase kinase 3 regulates axon, dendrite growth

Publishing 10 papers in one year is difficult for most scientists.

Nobel Prize-winning neurobiologist was 92