Investing in new drug delivery technologies is becoming a critical strategy for them to maintain a strong presence in this cut-throat market as they offer the potential to enhance the life cycle of established drugs.

Mass spectrometry (MS) has found significant use in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors, where primary applications include the characterisation of protein and other biologically active entities.

NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston is scheduled to reopen Monday, Sept. 22, ending its closure related to Hurricane Ike.

NASA will hold a media teleconference Tuesday, Sept. 23, at 12:30 p.m. EDT, to discuss data from the joint NASA and European Space Agency Ulysses mission that reveals the sun's solar wind is at a 50-year low.

NASA has extended the Unified NASA Information Technology Services, or UNITeS, contract with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of San Diego.

All summer long, House Republicans staged weekly news conferences outside the Capitol calling for more offshore oil drilling. And they were usually met by an assortment of environmental protesters chanting in unison, trying to drown out the GOP's pro-drilling voices.

Over a five-year period, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives lost dozens of weapons and hundreds of laptops that contained sensitive information, according to a scathing report issued yesterday by the Justice Department.

Students will have an opportunity to compete for thousands of dollars and gain practical experience this month in the Omniture Web Analytics competition.

Many classes in the College of Life Sciences have been using the world as their campus by going on field trips to study first hand the things they have learned in the class room.

The Science Teachers Association of Nigeria (STAN) has expressed its commitment to taking the nation's science education to the highest level.

TEACHERS of sciences should be highly motivated so as to promote technological innovations in the country, prominent scientists and researchers advised yesterday.

The Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has blacklisted two companies following their importation of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) maize when they were contracted to supply the staple food.

Primary school learners in four provinces will on Thursday participate in the annual Primary Science Day (PSD) aimed at encouraging them to develop interests in maths and science.

You know you're in a heap of trouble when the lender of last resort suddenly runs out of money.

The Food and Drug Administration will release today long-awaited regulatory guidelines governing genetic engineering of animals for food, drugs or medical devices.

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Yeston Science 19 September 2008: 1607a DOI: 10.1126/science.321.5896.1607a

Census of Marine Life) Hundreds of new kinds of animal species surprised international researchers systematically exploring waters off two islands on the Great Barrier Reef and a reef off northwestern Australia -- waters long familiar to divers. The expeditions, affiliated

University of Montreal) A water treatment plant from Canada's second biggest city, Montreal, is dumping 90 times the critical amount of certain estrogen products into the river. It only takes one nanogram (ng) of steroids per liter of water to

Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are potent morphogens that activate transcriptional programs for lineage determination. How BMP induction of a phenotype...