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As a graduate student and postdoc, Doug Juers never had to worry about money; he worked in Howard Hughes Medical Institute-funded labs that were flush with cash. Since recently joining [...]

Electronic laboratory notebooks aren't just for industry anymore. Many ELNs now are priced for academia, 'and rapidly it's coming to the point where science cannot be done without it,' says [...]

Scientists in countries with the most restrictive policies on research cloning may not be able to take advantage of the international consortium based in South Korea, which was hailed last [...]

The human brain is still evolving. Microcephalin and ASPM (abnormal spindle-like microcephaly associated), two genes involved in brain development, have gone through positive selection in modern humans, according to research [...]

The ocean floor is a dark place for a photosynthetic bacterium. Nevertheless, researchers led by J. Thomas Beatty of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, have found obligately photosynthetic green [...]

In mice, the circadian Clock gene is involved in regulating the brain's dopaminergic reward pathway. Colleen McClung and colleagues at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas found [...]

Harvard University's Junying Yuan and colleagues identified a chemical that blocks a programmed cell-death pathway that is non-apoptotic. Yuan's study (1) shows that the chemical, necrostatin-I (Nec-I), has no effect [...]

Figuring out how denatured proteins morph into their folded, active forms isn't just a challenge; it's one of the most elusive problems in biology. Protein chemists now have more computational [...]

The biochemical pathway that senses amino acid deficiencies in yeast is also at work in mammals, according to researchers at the University of California, Davis. (1) But while yeast signaling [...]