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The Human Genome Organisation was both a cheer-leader and a coordinator for genomics. But proteomics is a different beast, and the fledgling Human Proteome Organisation will struggle to find a similar role.
Researchers trying to turn nanotubes into storage systems for hydrogen fuel are finding that corporate funding and academic openness can be hard to combine. Catherine Zandonella delves into a carbon controversy.
Plants attacked by hungry herbivores can release chemicals that attract their assailants' predators. Could these responses be exploited to develop environmentally friendly pest-control strategies? John Whitfield investigates.
New analyses of old data show that a devastating earthquake of 1897 stemmed from slippage of a hitherto unknown fault. That event illustrates what might happen elsewhere today.
Not many mammalian males die soon after mating — the phenomenon was thought to be limited to certain small marsupials. Its occurrence in a larger marsupial overturns previous ideas about why the strategy exists.
Interactions between electrons make it hard to predict the properties of exotic metals, such as plutonium. Better calculations that include a thorough treatment of electronic structure are the answer.
A crystal structure of the hairpin ribozyme provides an atomic framework for understanding RNA catalysis, including features that may be common to both RNA and protein enzymes.
Cannabinoids — molecules found naturally in the body, as well as in cannabis — stimulate appetite. Leptin, a hormone produced by body fat, decreases appetite. The effects of these molecules have now been linked.
When their DNA is damaged, cells temporarily stop multiplying to prevent the build-up of mutations. Two types of delay triggered by ionizing radiation appear to have common molecular starting points.
