Transmission of stress signals in E. coli is dependent on the distance between its inner and outer membranes.

And the same endocannabinoid system that translates marijuana's buzz-inducing compounds into a high plays crucial roles in health and disease outside the brain.

The system responsible for the buzz humans get from marijuana plays a passel of physiological roles outside the brain.

Charles Sawyers, who began his research career just as the genetic details of human oncogenes were emerging, codeveloped Gleevec, the quintessential targeted cancer therapy.