October 2005

When scientist David Evers of the Biodiversity Research Institute in Gorham, Maine, saw the latest data on mercury from Vermont's Green Mountains, he was amazed.

If you're struggling to win your first National Institutes of Health grant, here's another reason to be depressed: One of the most unusual NIH awards ever given went to a 9-year-old boy.

It's not often that you get to witness a major scientific figure watch his own theatrical indictment.

Recent results are as puzzling as they are beguiling, dredging up debates about the nature of language and the ability of a single gene to affect it so greatly.

Henry Flower became director of the British Museum of Nat ural History in 1884, and promptly set about rearranging exhibits.

Five years have passed since the National Institutes of Health launched the Protein Structure Initiative (PSI), a 10-year, $600 million effort to accelerate structural genomics.

The immune system uses a sophisticated profiling method to identify and subdue foreign pathogens.

Wild bats, rather than civet cats, may have been the source of the coronavirus behind the deadly SARS outbreak in 2003.

Jamming the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor allows severed neurons to regenerate.1 "It's a surprising finding," says Martin Schwab of the University of Zurich, as activation of the EGF receptor is normally associated with proliferation and growth of cells.Previous research that sought to explain why mammalian axons fail to regenerate in the wounded brain or spinal cord found several inhibitory cues that prevent healing. The culprits include proteins associated with myelin and proteoglycan

For mice, getting teary-eyed conveys more than just sentiment.

When he was a boy, Eugene Garfield lived across the street from a branch of the New York Public Library.

has grown dramatically in size and influence. The database has expanded from 1.4 million citations in 1964 to 550 million today.

Top 10 Papers Published...Source Thomson Scientificin the last 2 years, in the last 10 years and of all time

NASA scientists, in conjunction with Guava Technologies of Hayward, Calif., recently announced a compact prototype flow cytometer that functions in zero-gravity, for use aboard the International Space Station.

Although she died when the Roman Empire ruled her native land, a five-year-old Egyptian child named Sherit is nevertheless pushing the envelope in high-tech medicine.

The cells in our body are continually replaced, especially those exposed to the harsher environments of the skin or intestine.

A new tissue-engineering method tricks the body into growing its own bone grafts.

In the equine world, tendon and ligament injuries are bad news indeed.

When Todd Zion began looking for funds to launch Smart-Cells, a new company developing self-regulating insulin-delivery systems for patients with diabetes, he needed to raise just shy of $1.25 million, a number that "doesn't even show up on the radar screens of big venture capital firms," he says.

At one time, the drug development process had three phases.

A new report on open-access publishing released earlier this month has raised concerns about peer review, the standard of editing, and the financial future of some open-access journals.

Two American academic societies have recently reversed their policies toward Iranian scientists.

The Institute of Primate Research, in the Ololua forest about 20 kilometers outside the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, has been in operation since it was founded by the archaeologist Louis Leakey in 1960.

I hadn't realized until recently that the United States is in the grip of a mania.

, National Wildlife Federation President and CEO since April of last year, has been a passionate advocate for progress in conservation.

stated that under USDA standards, "organic farmers should not lose their certification due to adventitious presence of GMOs, as long as they take 'reasonable steps' to prevent such commingling.

Why is The Scientist giving prominence to a live bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) test for which no data is available?1 The question is particularly important in view of the fact that the July issue of Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology carries published research of a live BSE test,2 which has already been patented along with a patent for the human equivalent of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

underlined the importance of organizations protecting the good names they have built over the years.