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When white employees refused to work in a notorious hospital, Maria Smilios writes in ''The Black Angels,'' these nurses came to the aid of New Yorkers. THE BLACK ANGELS: The [...]

MEREDITH WADMAN is a reporter at Science magazine and the author of The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease, a Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book [...]

With government funds scarce, economist aims to support firearm study through private donations.

Findings bolster case for maternal drug therapy beyond feeding's end.

But researchers hope that the incidents will renew development of stalled vaccines.

Some science agencies fare well in US president’s budget request, but proposal will meet stiff resistance.

New recommendations could end half of ongoing experiments at US biomedical agency.

Declining to hear a final appeal, the US Supreme Court ends bid to block government support.

Court ruling that the state must get consent to store samples from newborn screening could hinder biomedical research.

Costs of animal housing could grow dramatically under revised US guidelines.

Senate may yet override decision, but House falls short of needed votes.

Bush promises to veto attempt to expand federal funding.

Report finds genomics effort has added US$1 trillion to US economy.

Most biomedical research on chimpanzees deemed 'unnecessary'.

Present regulations are adequate but not optimal, report says.

Wealthy nations pull back on funding for research on neglected maladies.

Researchers discover how carriers of the sickle-cell anaemia gene are protected from malaria.

US federal support for invasive chimpanzee research continues to wane.

For the NIH, President Obama’s first term brought a funding windfall. Now its director, Francis Collins, faces a tightening budget.

Census and cost data invoked to put US research centre in the clear.

Animal-rights group asks biomedical agency director to intervene.

US drug regulator finds no evident harm caused by sponsors failing to post drug-trial data.

Deaths at a Louisiana facility prompt a federal investigation

Howard Hughes Medical Institute launches new funding round for basic biology.

University of Pennsylvania says rules at time didn't prohibit unacknowledged, company-paid writers.

Common painkiller may induce heart attacks.

Discusses the efforts of biologist Craig Venter to use commercially available pieces of DNA to construct simple genomes in order to create new forms of life. Plans to develop complex bacteria that would create pharmaceuticals and chemicals more efficiently for a lower cost; Support for Venter's projects from the U.S. Department of Energy; Criticism of Venter's virus synthesis by scientists such as George Church and Eckard Wimmer; Comparison of synthetic biology and the processes of cloning; How Venter was the first person to sequence a whole bacterial genome.

Focuses on advances in reproductive technology that allows for sex preselection. Use of a process called MicroSort by the Genetics & IVF Institute in Fairfax, Virginia to separate male from female sperm; Development of the process by a United States Department of Agriculture scientist; Use of a flow cytometer to exploit the difference between the sperm; Mention of ethical questions raised by such technology.

Reports on the technique of gene repair and the possibility that it could cure Crigler-Najjar syndrome. Description of gene repair and why it is not widely being researched; Details of Crigler-Najjar syndrome, a disease that affects the liver; Role of Kimeragen Inc. in developing the gene therapy and gene repair research. INSET: Risky Science, Hot Stocks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports on the lack of attention that is being paid to women and heart attacks. How heart attacks fail to register on most women's health-worry lists; Symptoms of a heart attack in women; Why the prevention of heart attacks in women should begin in the younger years; Why women's heart attacks are easy to miss by doctors; The importance for women to get immediate medical care during a heart attack. INSET: A heart attack survival guide.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. "Behind the Curve," which discussed a connection between race-based cognitive propensities and achievement; "Is Affirmative Action Doomed?," which focused on the state of affirmative action programs in the U.S.; "Look Who's Talking," which dealt with race relations in the country.

Nearly one-third of breast cancers identified in healthy US women would never have caused symptoms.

The use of aborted fetal tissue has sparked controversy in the United States, but many scientists say it is essential for studies of HIV, development and more.

Reports that pharmaceutical companies are developing drugs that will hinder brain signals that trigger hunger. Focus on the cannabinoid receptor; Companies doing research into this area including Merck & Co. Inc., Pfizer Inc., and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

Reports on the risk of health pills containing bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease in the United States. How dietary supplements contain cow parts, including brains and glands; Description of the human version of mad cow, called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; Role of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Reports on the possible discovery of a vaccination for AIDS. How the vaccine would make HIV-infected people less contagious; Discussion of antibodies, the Y-shaped proteins that bind to blood-borne invaders, which stop them from infecting cells; Focus on killer T-cells, which attack a virus directly, target and destroy cells that are infected.

Focuses on the debate in Europe over the patenting of human genes. Mention of a directive passed by the European Union allowing such patenting; Patent on BRCA1 which was obtained by the United States biotechnology company Myriad Genetics; Why many European companies have refused to recognize Myriad's patent, and want it revoked; Implications.

Reports that Swiss drug manufacturer Novartis scaled back research on pig-to-human organ transplantations. What the decision means to xenotransplants, or animal-human organ donation; How xenotransplantation once seemed a promising field; Reasons why the research was reduced.

Reports the publication of a study by scientists at Jefferson Medical College in the January 2000 issue of `Nature Biotechnology,' in which they used chimeraplasty to alter the shade of the hair of albino mice. Chimeraplasty as a type of gene therapy and its comparison to standard gene therapy; Kimeragen, the company which owns the exclusive license to chimeraplasty technology; Possible uses of gene therapy for balding.

The article discusses efforts to increase the number of women who win Nobel Prizes as of October 2013, focusing on biologist Carol Greider's receipt of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2009, as well as information on the impacts of child rearing and domestic obligations on a woman's ability to carry out scientific and academic research. Physics laureate Marie Curie and the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. are mentioned, along with STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) careers.

Trove of data-mining resources on malaria and other killers will need donations to stay alive.

"Fearmongering" guidelines ignore wealth of scientific evidence, critics say.

Does new Frontiers Planet Prize-with its millions-perpetuate old inequities?

Scientists debate the role of humidity in rising heat deaths.