US scientists create 20 disease-specific stem cell lines for global research use

The grandmother hypothesis suggests women survive for years after menopause in order to help their offspring to reproduce, but why do human females stop reproducing in the first place?

Model organisms such as zebrafish are vitally important in answering basic questions of developmental cell biology and signalling, and those built for distance and not speed may just have a few more prickles.

New Zealand's University of Canterbury will be the first research institution in the southern hemisphere to have an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer.

Massachusetts is trying to regain the top position in life science research from the Governator.

American researchers may have run off with the big prizes in science this week, but finally there's some good news for dear old Orstralya - we won an Ig Nobel!

Philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad have announced a second US$100 million gift to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has selected 43 scientists as new HHMI investigators. The new appointees join a group of 300 investigators who receive lavish funding - with minimal red tape - from the institute.

The pharmaceutical industry is expected to face pressure to curb rising prescription-drug costs no matter which candidate wins next week's US presidential election.

New chips, new terminology -- 'ecogenomics' -- and the latest installment of J Craig Venter's travelogue of discovery highlighted the opening day of the 16th International Genome Sequencing and Analysis Conference, being held in Washington, DC, last week.

Cross-linked oligomers of beta-amyloid (AB) may be the primary neurotoxic agent in Alzheimer's disease according to Rob Moir, an expatriate Australian researcher in Rudolph Tanzi's Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University.