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Just before the holidays, Kenneth Casey's young granddaughter accidentally slammed the tip of her finger in a car door. Not surprisingly, she reacted quite strongly. Casey, a long-time pain researcher [...]

Marshall W. Nirenberg, laboratory chief of biochemical genetics at the National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, received a Nobel Prize in 1968 for helping to interpret [...]

The nation's first learned society looks for a niche in a changing academic landscape A few hundred feet from the Philadelphia birthplace of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, [...]

While many scientists and the media focus on current and future advances in science, the lesser known archivist has the tough task of preserving the decades-old documents of pioneering researchers. [...]

As invasive species problems grow, questions persist on how to deal with these foreign foes Mosquitoes infected with the West Nile virus fly through American air; green crabs and other [...]

Despite the widespread use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the neural basis of everything from digestion to facial recognition, scientists have never definitively shown that fMRI measurements [...]

By better understanding the biological effects of drug use, researchers hope to find ways to stymie addiction. A recent study revealing the neurological footprint of just one dose of cocaine [...]

You're never too old to talk science. A newly formed society seeks to help retired scientists continue to collaborate, deliberate, and network even after they've left the laboratory. Called the [...]

Lee Lynd, an associate professor at Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering, has seen the future of energy, and it grows everywhere. 'If sufficient land is made available for cellulosic [...]

Can organic waste become the nation's next big power source? In theory, using cellulosic biomass makes a lot of sense. Take what would otherwise be waste or animal feed--agricultural and [...]

Citing a need to reallocate resources, the New York Academy of Sciences announced the termination of its quarterly magazine The Sciences on June 1. Known for its abstract-art-adorned science articles, [...]

The American Museum of Natural History in New York, in creating what it claims is the first comprehensive museum exhibit on genomics, faced unique challenges. 'The Genomic Revolution,' which began [...]

Marshalling a healthy dose of pomp and circumstance, the Franklin Institute Science Museum (FI) in Philadelphia honored seven distinguished scientists and engineers on April 27 as part of its annually [...]

Tracking the disease's genetic roots presents enormous challenges The Mormons' religious beliefs have proven to be quite a boon for cancer epidemiologists. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of [...]

Findings link actin polymerization to signal transduction pathway Cells rely on their cytoskeletons to do just about everything--from migration to differentiation. Cell biologists must therefore understand the role of actin, [...]

This past March, the nonprofit Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation presented grants to 30 young researchers as part of its Beckman Young Investigators (BYI) awards and its Beckman Scholars program [...]

Grassroots initiative demands free, searchable content from publishers Scientists and publishers generally agree that the Internet is sparking a science publishing revolution.[1] They have yet to agree, however, on how [...]

Novel locale for ERs sparks new direction in steroid hormone research For years, endocrinologists believed that the actions of estrogen and other steroids were confined to the cell's nucleus. By [...]

Tension continues to mount over principles of data access Sentiments expressed at a March 12 National Academy of Sciences workshop suggest that scientists and policy-makers remain very concerned about data [...]

Academic and private institutions will team up to sequence the rat genome, an arrangement made official on February 28 with a grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [...]

President George W. Bush's delays in making major science and technology government personnel appointments at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, [...]

Symposium marks evolutionist victory, anti-evolution growth For the past 80 years, the teaching of evolution has flirted with extinction several times in several states. From the famous 1925 Scopes Monkey [...]

Landmark human genome papers represent more than major scientific achievements At the recent American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting held in San Francisco, Celera Genomics CEO J. Craig [...]

Public and private groups reveal first detailed look at the genome landscape. On February 12, amid considerable international fanfare, Rockville, Md.-based Celera Genomics and the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium [...]

Delineation of biochemical pathway points to possible Alzheimer's therapy In demonstrating critical links among elements in the pathway to Alzheimer's disease (AD) onset, these four papers forged fundamental connections between [...]

Howard Hughes Medical Institute announces plans for a large high-tech campus The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation's largest privately held funder of biomedical research, has announced plans to build [...]

Accurately modeling the totality of biological processes in human cells, tissues, and organs requires big-league computer power. To acquire the computational capability necessary for proteomics research, Rockville, Md.-based Celera Genomics, [...]

Buck Institute applies multidisciplinary program to the science of growing old No one can escape one of the few risk factors common to neurodegenerative diseases, heart disease, and many cancers: [...]

Watching movies starring microorganisms can be a pretty good way to go about parasitology research. New York University parasitologists were quite intrigued recently when they reviewed decade-old time-lapse microscopy observations [...]

Students get a first-hand look at the biological rhythm of their daily routines As part of its annual educational outreach lecture series, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute recently had high [...]

In an early step toward developing a potentially invaluable animal model, scientists, for the first time, have genetically modified a nonhuman primate (A.W. Chan et al., 'Transgenic monkeys produced by [...]

Sam Enzyme Repairs Repels Pathogens An enzyme involved in genome defense has been shown to attack invading pathogens (W-M. Chu et al., 'DNA-PKcs is required for activation of innate immunity [...]

Reports, symposia proliferate; government, healthcare system readiness insufficient Although the world has yet to witness a major bioterrorist attack, the field of bioterrorism continues to capture the attention of scientists, [...]