October 2005

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.