Retractions galore in the community, from the Taiwan team accused of image manipulation to the series of papers that featured incorrect data thanks to faulty software.
The annual Darwin Awards release their winners for 2006. Their raison d'etre: "the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally remove themselves from it."
Discover magazine joins the publications taking a swing at the "best of 2006" lists with the top genetics stories as well as the top scientist of the year.
Bioinformaticists, rejoice: industry watchers are already spreading doubt about Microsoft's long-awaited Vista platform. How much do we love Linux? Let us count the ways.
A group within the US Centers for Disease Control tackles what others have deemed impossible, trying to elicit causes for unexplained deaths in cases that may be linked to pathogens or emerging infectious diseases.
Years after President Bush's stem cell decision, scientists are still struggling to comply with the rules while finding ways to advance their research.
In the superfamily tree, gibbons are among the more highly diverged species from humans. A PLoS Genetics paper says synteny breakpoints may well have been the fork in the road.
The US FDA finds no difference between meat from regular livestock and cloned livestock, and proposed greenlighting sales of cloned products without special labeling for consumers.
The first extensive investigation of Indian genetic diversity and population relationships samples 15 groups of India-born immigrants to the United States, genotyping each at 1,200 genetic markers genome-wide.
No holiday break for the flow of sad news from New Jersey's spectacularly mismanaged UMDNJ research hospital. Among the latest, a brand new $110 million cancer center sitting almost empty for lack of operating funds.
