After a small dip in 2011, salaries for food scientists have bounced back. U.S. members of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) earned a median salary of $90,000 last year, according to the 2013 IFT Employment and Salary Survey.

Newest method for determining a protein's shape based on XFEL technology significantly broadens number and type of proteins that researchers can study.

The new Human Neuroscience Institute in Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology aims to advance research on the neural basis of human behavior.

The Scientific Equipment and Furniture Association (SEFA) based in Garden City, New York, will host a design competition for current high school and college students during the school year. The objective is to design a piece of lab furniture which the student believes would enhance the laboratory learning experience. Students can work individually or as a team of no more than three.

Researchers from Warwick Medical School have discovered the key role of a protein in shutting down endocytosis during mitosis, answering a question that has evaded scientists for half a century.

Scientists from the University of Sheffield have developed a novel antibody-based therapy which targets the progression of life threatening kidney fibrosis.

Drinking water with a relatively high concentration of magnesium protects against hip fractures, according to results of a study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.

A commonly-used HIV drug has been shown to kill-off the human papilloma virus (HPV) that leads to cervical cancer in a world-first clinical trial led by The University of Manchester with Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) in Nairobi.

It is well known that genes are passed from one generation to the next. In addition, new genes arise regularly, although the number of genes in a particular organism does not seem to increase. The paradox has been solved by recent research at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, which shows that newly created genes are frequently lost. The spontaneous appearance and disappearance of genes enables organisms to adapt rapidly to their environment and helps drive evolution. The work is published today in the journal eLife.

A team of researchers at Chalmers University of Technology has found that kidney cancer cells have a quite different metabolism than other types of malignancies. The findings pave the way for new methods of diagnosing kidney cancer at an early stage, a feat that had eluded researchers earlier, and thereby fresh approaches to treatment.