Today, science is a clear winner with the re-election of President Obama. Among other good judgments on science, President Obama made a...

Epigenetics continues to change and shape thinking on disease processes and causation. It’s an important topic for product liability...

(Images courtesy of Nature and the 1000 Genomes project) This week brought another example of the exponential explosion in molecular...

The fact pattern sounds like a law school examination. Publicly held biotech company is using clinical trials to test an anticancer drug....

Over time, biobanks and computers will produce a relatively rapid explosion of new knowledge. A weekend article from the NYT makes the...

("This illustration depicts DNA molecules (light green), packaged into nanoparticles by using a polymer with two different segments…....

Honesty and trust are keys to relationships of many kinds. A pair of news stories this week highlight practical and important issues...

At first it was the PAS antigen test for prostate cancer. Now cancer biomarkers are arriving for more and more other cancers. Their...

Nobel prizes bring together past, present and future by recognizing and honoring transformative findings, regardless of when achieved....

Remember the old saying about a leopard not being able to change its spots. Well, it looks like that’s going to become an obsolete saying...

Molecular biologists continue to delve into the specifics of how "toxins" cause harm, thus creating information that someday will end up...

Remember photon torpedos in Star Trek? Now there’s something new photon-wise, but even better than torpedos. The Financial Times spread...

Amazing. One small piece of DNA. Using advanced, repeating gene sequencing techniques, the researchers generated a precise genomic...

Unlike asbestos and silica fibers, nanofibers are created by human designers. All three substances, however, are proven or suspected...

Unfortunately, some science papers end up being retracted because of foul-ups or deceit. Retraction Watch keeps an eye on and writes...

Judge Posner never lacks for an opinion. In this opinion in ATA v. Federal Express, he explains why an expert opinion on damages should...

(Photo courtesy of UK Mirror) A good news story for science from the London Olympic Games. The news is that British scientists and others...

The Olympics highlight the reality that science changes, and it’s a mistake to become complacent about science. To see the impact, here’s...

(Image courtesy of Cray Supercomputing – more than 270 Cray supercomputers are now being deployed in the Blue Waters Project ongoing at...

The X Prize Foundation seeks to highlight progress and hopes in science and technology through extreme challenges, with prizes. One...