On May 9, the Global Medical Excellence Cluster (GMEC) announced a five-year collaborative agreement with Pfizer Inc. that provides a framework for the research and development of new and innovative medicines for rare diseases.

The federal government has asked University of South Florida (USF) officials to return $6.5 million in federal grant money the university improperly used for salaries and equipment purchases, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have engineered a bacterium whose genetic material includes an added pair of DNA “letters,” or bases, not found in nature. The cells of this unique bacterium can replicate the unnatural DNA bases more or less normally, for as long as the molecular building blocks are supplied.

Bioengineers at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the University of Montreal have used DNA to develop a tool that detects and reacts to chemical changes caused by cancer cells and that may one day be used to deliver drugs to tumor cells.

Findings unequivocally link two "personality" changes of electrons at critical point.

Research at  Emory University’s Goizueta Business School suggests that hard economic times may positively influence young people.

This event features a suite of unique, interactive programs hosted in “virtual pavilions” dedicated to Lab Management and Life Science Research.

U.S. Army Research Office funding to Lynch, Foster approaches $13 million since 2010.

A Purdue University research center committed to helping the next generation strengthen international development and solve the global food insecurity problem is awarding $608,341 in grants to graduate students at 19 U.S. universities.

If cells were cars, then the three pioneering cell biologists just named winners of the 2014 E.B. Wilson Medal, the highest scientific honor of the American Society for Cell Biology, helped write the essential parts list. William "Bill" Brinkley of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, John Heuser of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Peter Satir of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx identified crucial pieces of the cytoskeleton, the cell's shape-shifting framework, and showed how these elements drive life at the cellular level.

New cloud computing platform expands science and technology offerings and boosts student enrollment and retention by 30 percent.

Partnership will allow university to further refine and enhance its cutting-edge technology which converts natural gas to clean synthetic fuels.