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A parasitic wasp has evolved its own zinc-tipped drill bit to bore into fruit in order to lay its eggs, scientists reveal....

The first two attempts at a complete catalogue of human proteins, called the proteome, are published by independent teams of researchers....

A relative of the cane toad, which has devastated wildlife in Australia, has invaded Madagascar and could cause ecological disaster, scientists warn....

Canada's Trimel Pharmaceuticals, a penny stock biotech which issued a "going concern" warning about its financial status earlier this year, is touting the results of a midstage drug designed to correct female sexual disorder. ...

As promised, Valeant Pharmaceuticals has returned to the deal table with a sweetened pitch for Allergan, putting up a bigger offer with more cash and even making an uncharacteristic commitment to R&D. ...

Array BioPharma has watched its shares fall steadily earthward since ex-partner Amgen backed out of a diabetes deal last summer, but a new deal with Big Biotech Biogen Idec sent the company up about 5% on renewed hopes for its early-stage R&D efforts. ...

The Netherlands' arGEN-X has paired up with Bayer, agreeing to share its proprietary antibody technology with the drug giant to fuel some early-stage R&D. ...

Mathew Martoma, the former SAC Capital Advisors employee convicted in biotech's largest insider trading scandal, is seeking a softer prison sentence for his role in the scheme. ...

A recent review of hundreds of chemical analyses of Moon rocks indicates that the amount of water in the Moon's interior varies regionally – revealing clues about how water originated and was redistributed in the Moon. These discoveries provide a new tool to unravel the processes involved in the formation of the Moon, how the lunar crust cooled, and its impact history. This is not liquid water, but...

AUSTIN, Texas — Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin and five other institutions have discovered that the more diverse the diet of a fish, the less diverse are the microbes living in its gut. If the effect is confirmed in humans, it could mean that the combinations of foods people eat can influence the diversity of their gut microbes. The research could have implications for how probiotics...

If you are an organic farmer, you may be worried your crops can be "contaminated" by a field genetically modified with a gene to express a natural toxin against pests. Nasty weeds sometimes evolve directly from natural crosses between domesticated species and wild relatives. A rare plant is threatened due to its small population size and restricted range. What do all these situations have in...

Two new shipping routes have opened in the Arctic: the Northwest Passage through Canada, and the Northern Sea Route, a 3,000-mile stretch along the coasts of Russia and Norway connecting the Barents and Bering seas. Overall, it means for the first time in perhaps 2 million years, the north Pacific and north Atlantic oceans are navigable, and that means new opportunities for Arctic natural resources...

Lung cancer is one of the top killers of people. Once patients receive a diagnosis, chemotherapy is common but accurate predictions about whether or not this treatment will help are impossible. New treatments are always in the works but the road from article on Science 2.0 to FDA approval is long. Before anything can incur the costs of a clinical trial, it has to show success in animal models....

Snakebite is one of the most neglected of all tropical diseases, with nearly 5 million people bitten by snakes each year and fatalities globally up to 30 times higher than that of land mines and comparable to AIDS in some developing countries. It has been estimated that more than 75 percent of snakebite victims who die do so before they ever reach the hospital so a new approach may dramatically reduce...

In most sports, youth helps. The adage was that if an older person can do it better than a younger person, it isn't a sport. But the lines of performance are lot more blurry today and youth is not a barometer. Lots of high school students can jump right to the NBA, and the first round draft pick in the NFL college draft is likely to be starting the next summer, but baseball drafts aren't big...

NEW YORK, NY (May 21, 2014) — The overall number and nature of mutations—rather than the presence of any single mutation—influences an individual's risk of developing schizophrenia, as well as its severity, according to a discovery by Columbia University Medical Center researchers published in the latest issue of Neuron . The findings could have important implications for the early detection and treatment...

Tai Chi is a traditional Chinese pastime that had its origins in self-defense. Like with many sports and hobbies, its benefits in relaxation and fitness are well-documented. A new paper in Cell Transplantation adds to its benefits, finding in a small study that it increased a cluster of differentiation 34 expressing (CD34 ) cells, a stem cell important to a number of the body's functions and...

Why are some 75-year-olds downright spry while others can barely get around?  Some people who smoke look old from a young age while others don't. Part of the explanation, say researchers writing in Trends in Molecular Medicine is differences from one person to the next in exposure to harmful substances in the environment.  A birth date is a chronological age but it might mean little in terms...

A mechanism that enables the development of resistance to Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) anticancer drugs, thereby leading to relapse, has been identified by Kathy Borden of the University of Montreal's Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) and her collaborators. Kathy Borden is a Principal Investigator at IRIC and a professor at the university's Department of Pathology and Cell Biology....

Evidence for massive and abrupt iceberg calving in Antarctica dating back 19,000 to 9,000 years ago is based on an analysis of new, long deep sea sediment cores extracted from the region between the Falkland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula.  The study in Nature documents that the Antarctic ice sheet is unstable and can abruptly reorganize Southern Hemisphere climate and cause rapid global...