News - Bruce Beutler
2011-10-03 12:36:11
A scientist awarded the Nobel prize for his research in cancer died of the disease just days before he was told about the award.
2010-11-22 06:43:34
Though it's been at least a billion years since plants and animals shared a common ancestor, they have through the eons shared a common threat in the form of microbes, including bacteria, eukaryotes and viruses.
2010-11-18 17:23:51
It may have been 1 billion years since plants and animals branched apart on the evolutionary tree but down through the ages they have developed strikingly similar mechanisms for detecting microbial invasions and resisting diseases.