Riding the life-science tiger
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JUST WHAT the state needs: another business committee. Well, yes, actually -- if the new Massachusetts Life Science Collaborative can rationalize the state's current hodge podge of overlapping and competing efforts to boost this promising industry. Jobs for at least 600,000 Massachusetts residents and 10 percent of the state's gross domestic product depend on it.
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Nutrition, obsession, global business:  an exploration of our second most basic desire.
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Research into using stem cells to repair damaged nerves just got a big boost, with scientists pinpointing a protein key to controlling binocular vision -- visual depth perception -- in mammals.
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Scientists say they have made a major step toward creating synthetic forms of life.
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Engineered E. coli proves efficient at churning out the biofuel.
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A new technique for tracking endangered species' genes borrows concepts from electrical engineering. Commentary by Carl Zimmer.
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Science & environment: Discovery suggests that simple bacteria and animals might swap entire genes more often than previously thought.
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The experiment is part of an explosion in the new field of synthetic biology.
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Researchers have unveiled a new way to map the brainâs billions of neurons.
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The world of science has been busy all through 2004. The probing eye looked in all directions. It looked at the skies, at the ground beneath our feet, at the wings of a butterfly and at the molecules of water.
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Genetics pioneer Craig Venter has news from the frontiers of biology.
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UK and Swiss scientists find a way to trigger an out-of-body experience in healthy volunteers.
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An explosion of new research is vastly changing scientistsâ understanding of diabetes and giving new clues about how to attack it.
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New methods to reprogram adult cells could create novel models of disease.
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Evolutionary biologists have long theorized that the pace of evolution quickens when a species faces great environmental stress. This idea, of course, is a tough one to âprove,â but we can see examples of it all around us. Just look at the IT security industry, where something akin to drastic environmental change is happening right now: Organized cybercrime groups are punching truck-size holes in enterprise security defenses as regulators, shareholders, and attorneys general are putting pressure on companies to lock down sensitive data. The pressure for change will make this weekâs RSA Security Conference in San Francisco less an industry shindig than a live experiment in evolutionary biology. So walk quietly and keep your field glasses handy to spot some exotic new species in these areas:
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A little-known Food and Drug program is testing the latest medical technology to determine how safe and useful it can be. One cutting-edge experiment is designed to see if
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Researchers say they have created a "virtual" model of all the biochemical reactions that occur in human cells.