Delaware’s “activist judges” remain hard at work on paring back “disclosure suits” in securities cases, with yet another ruling late last...

Trial has finally arrived for the long-pending and much litigated Donovan class action against big tobacco in federal court in...

An incredible story on how genetic mutations interact, but in different ways, is set out in a January 15, 2016  article in ProPublica....

The future is arriving quickly; ten predictions well worth reading for a big picture view are set out in a January 4, 2016 article in...

Gathering molecular information matters. Consider the information set out in a January 7, 2016  article at europa.eu that summarizes...

Storytelling is critically important for trial lawyers. For a very good summary in a couple of pages, see this January 2016 article in...

A January 5, 2016 abstract suggests the possible identification of the long sought highly specific and sensitive biomarker for...

Image from Illumina’s press conference announcing a bold new plan to change how the world deals with cancer. Did you feel the earth move...

The January 9, 2016 Dilbert is worth a read for trial lawyers. But it also may cause some depression.

A multi-disciplinary judicial college aimed at education beyond the judges is an interesting idea now underway in Illinois. The new...

The power of genomics, and a smart doctor, can be awesome. For example,  after 24 years, genomics and a smart doctor in a rare disease...

Plaintiff firms involved in asbestos litigation like to have the internet pulsing with references to asbestos and litigation. To that...

Cartoon courtesy of Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids. You knew this well-targeted attack was going to be launched by someone. Kudos to the...

Interested judges,  lawyers and accused persons actually can work to solve problems, as opposed to simply reaching decisions and meting...

Researchers depend in part on “lines” of mice bred and raised to be the same, and assumed to be the same.  The assumptions are being...

It’s hard to believe, but the pace of molecular science continues to accelerate. And it’s increasingly focused on disease causation...

The Aubin opinion in late October was accompanied by happy talk from the US Chamber of Commerce (they focused on not losing completely on...

Some catch up on an item that kept getting pushed back. The point is to extend kudos to Legal Newsline for pressing for and obtaining the...

Tufts biologists induced one species of flatworm — G. dorotocephala, top left — to grow heads and brains characteristic of other species...

“When Florence Metz turned in her Ph.D. thesis on water protection policy this year at the University of Bern in Switzerland, she thought...