The city will provide cheap real estate and up to $100 million for a science and engineering campus.

Induced pluripotent stem cells are biology’s hottest new tool for understanding human disease.

In the first known case of a cross-species outbreak of an adenovirus, researchers identify a virus that infected both monkeys and humans.

The hike is attributed to expanded use of genetically modified and mutant animals.

A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research

A 16-year-long newt study finds that regeneration remains efficient with repetition and age.

A new strain of gonorrhea is resistant to all currently available antibiotics.

Controversial new research links autism to the environment, not genetics.

Free radicals, widely believed to promote cancer, may actually slow tumor growth.

Using synchrotron rapid scanning X-ray fluorescence to map the distribution of trace metals in avian fossils over 120 million-year-old, researchers reconstruct the pigment patterns of their feathers—revealing some of the extinct birds' long-lost colors.

Member, Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington. Age: 38

Researchers map pigments in early bird fossils using preserved metallic residues.